Word: consulting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Computers now analyze the sales potential of new products, schedule complex production runs, and solve design problems. Before making investment decisions, many bankers and brokers consult Standard & Poor's Compustat system, whose computer has standardized and "memorized" 30 financial details about 625 corporations, including sales, cash flow and price/earnings ratio of stocks. A New Jersey builder recently relied on a computer to choose the house plans, prices and financing arrangements for a large suburban project. Even Kentucky horse breeders depend on a computer, primed with race results and the physical characteristics of 200,000 thoroughbreds, to serve...
...Anchor Bible, Editor Albright points out: "We have learned more about the Bible in the past 150 years than in all the previous centuries since its composition." The King James translators, for example, had only 16th century copies of New Testament manuscripts to work from; scholars today can consult papyrus fragments that date from within 60 years of Jesus' crucifixion...
Action there will surely be as the rebellion rages on. Next week a special, board-appointed investigating committee is scheduled to consult and report on the validity of the Blair-Kantor charges against Culligan...
...would be possible, for example, for a senior to keep a list of the books he had checked out to consult for his thesis. The list of books (including their call numbers) could be presented at the check-out counter each month along with a note from the tutor saying the student was writing a thesis...
...investigate the possibility that "outside agitators" moved in to provoke the riots in the North's Negro ghettos. And he is trying to soften the harsh debate over foreign policy-particularly over the mess in Viet Nam -by creating a bipartisan panel of distinguished private citizens to consult with him on "major international problems...