Word: conference
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William N. Confer Dothan...
...robot as a helper rather than a menace is widespread among factory hands. Though robots are highly vulnerable to sabotage, there has been no trace of the Luddite violence that threatened the first labor-saving machines of the Industrial Revolution. On the contrary, working with a robot seems to confer status. And, while the machine usually looks less like a man than like a lobster, its human partners often seem unable to resist giving it a name and even lavishing on it a certain metallic affection. When one machine known as "Clyde the Claw" broke down at a Ford stamping...
...scheduled to fly to Washington Monday for the first of three weeklong visits before his Inauguration. At a CIA briefing he will tell Director Stansfield Turner that he will be replaced. On Thursday, Reagan will visit with the man he defeated so resoundingly Nov. 4. While their husbands confer, Rosalynn Carter will show Nancy Reagan around the White House living quarters...
...Angeles, Atlantic Richfield Co. is designing a complete "teleconferenceing" network so that key company employees can confer with one another visually by use of satellite hook-and wall-sized projection screens. Starting in 1982, executives in Philadelphia or Dallas will not have to fly to Los Angeles for their regular weekly meeting. Instead they will walk to a room equipped for a teleconference. The system, part of a $20 million company-wide communications effort, is expected to save the company $50 million to $60 million annually in travel costs...
...already whipsawed by inflation and recession. The IRS edict made it more costly to maintain backlists, the reserve of older and usually high-quality books that sell slowly but steadily year after year. To such houses as Knopf, Random House, Houghton Mifflin, Scribner's, and Little, Brown, backlists confer a sense of tradition and continuity whose value cannot be entirely tallied in dollars. Says Knopf Editor in Chief Robert Gottlieb: "Our intent is to keep our backlist in print as long as possible and to make those books available to, bookstores and libraries. We'd cease being Knopf...