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Word: conceicao (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...workers who gave the computer its name, who call it simply "the machine," its advent is not as impressive as it is for management. Leyla Reddy, a clerk, says "at first it was fun because it was something different," and Conceicao A. Peixoto, who works in the payroll office, says that the work became "very interesting" when the computer came in last year. By now, however, the bloom has come off the rose; even though the machine has splintered the time needed to track down an error in the payroll from days to smithereens of seconds, it has lost...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: The Warm Cold Heart Of Harvard's Bureaucracy | 5/12/1976 | See Source »

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