Word: computerize
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Sculley Out at Apple In a not so unexpected move, John Sculley stepped down as chairman of Apple Computer after 10 years with the company.
When the patient is a child, the ability of parents to provide care becomes relevant. Young transplant recipients require constant monitoring for rejection, lifelong medication and special precautions to avoid infection. For these reasons, says Ethicist Arthur Caplan of the Hastings Center at Hastings- on-Hudson, N.Y., Loma Linda officials...
An all-out Soviet nuclear attack on the U.S. could entail an intercontinental blitzkrieg: thousands of missiles launched from enemy territory, letting loose tens of thousands of deadly warheads surrounded by a nebula of hurtling decoys and debris. In half an hour, this lethal ''threat cloud'' would be over the...
...American employee doing equivalent work might be $12 an hour, the Chinese workers earn about $4 a day. Some U.S. firm, have long used foreign data centers to supplement their labor force for one-time tasks. In 1972, Boston-based John Hancock Insurance hired Key Universal, in Connecticut, to computerize more than 10 million documents, some dating back as far as half a century ago. Key Universal subcontracted the job to workers in Grenada, who labored for twelve months to transfer the information to magnetic tapes. Foreign concerns are becoming more aggressive in seeking clients for their sophisticated wares...
Then one day a few months ago, a friend e-mailed me a manuscript of his first book. It's torture plowing through 350 pages on a computer, and I was too cheap to print it out. So on a lark, I forwarded the document to Amazon, which converts such...