Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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1:00 a.m.--The SafeStreets volunteers are keeping busy. By using the computer terminal in the corner of the room, they've managed to contact students on terminals at Stanford. They'll converse on-screen with about four different people in the course of the shift. The three-hour time...
Four years have passed since Gorbachev launched his crash program to catapult the Soviet economy into the computer age, and the results are just starting to show. Soviet manufacturers cranked out a record 100,000 microcomputers last year, bringing the total number of personal computers to an estimated 200,000...
The problem is as much political as it is technological. Consider, for example, the children's computer club that chess champion Gary Kasparov helped organize in 1987 and to which he donated two U.S.-made Atari 1040s. Although it had the blessings of Yevgeny Velikhov, vice president of the Soviet...
After the U.S.S.R. put out the welcome mat two years ago to attract joint ventures with Western firms, hundreds of business executives rushed to Moscow. Many of them inked deals to produce such wares as shoes and pizza, computer software and fertilizer. But doing business in the Soviet Union has...
Like Fedorov's restaurant, the co-op movement has taken off -- but it faces a bumpy ride. Although they now account for only about 1% of the country's economy, the 48,000 Soviet co-ops (there were only a handful a year ago) employ some 770,000 workers. The...