Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Their chief tool, in fact, is not new at all: the U.S. Postal Service. Through direct-mail bombardment, the right alerts its friends to a particular cause and adds to its converts. In this letter-box war for American minds, the top general is Viguerie, who is considered by friend...
How real is the Le Carré construction? Do his plots correspond with true moral quandaries? Says one American CIA official: "We know that our work plays havoc with our personal lives. We know that an awful lot of what we have to do is slogging through file cards and computer...
In the business of arms sales there is a new intensity to which Sampson devotes most of his book. The threat of nuclear war and the polarizing effect of U.S. Soviet relations disrupts the old "every man for himself" ethic. The most revolutionizing effect, however, has been the oil crisis...
Upon leaving Government, Eckstein found himself in great demand as a speaker and consultant to business. In one two-day period, he jetted to Chicago, Denver and San Francisco-and concluded that "there must be a better way to disseminate economic data and forecasts." It was on the plane that...
...years longer. But Eckstein's marketing flair and his computer time-sharing innovation have made DRI by far the biggest in the field. The most reliable performance rating of the prophets is made by Economist Stephen McNees of the Boston Federal Reserve Bank, who concludes that the three computerized econometric data firms - DRI, Wharton and Chase Econometrics - set the standard for accuracy among professional forecasters...