Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cheapest alternative and place the call. The system, due out this summer from Bedford, Massachusetts-based MediaCom www.phonemiser.com) should cost less than $100, plus a $4.95 monthly fee to keep the software constantly updated (the various calls are charged to one credit card). If company founder Robert Pokress is correct that it can save as much as 66% on the average phone bill, this is one computer product that should quickly pay for itself...
...encounters is that "mafia" has evolved into a blanket term applied to gangs from Tokyo to St. Petersberg, and the new generation is gaining strength. With the addition of multicultural dons--from Colombian Gilberto "The Chess Player" Orejuela to Japanese godfather Yoshinori Watanabe--'90s gangland has become a politically correct industry in which drug smuggling, racketeering and prostitution rings are all equal opportunity employers, an image which, needless to say, warrants a trip down memory lane...
...underlying premise of the Chivas Regal effect proved to be correct. "The theory of it was, basically, we will raise the tuition as much as the market will bear," says William Massy, a former Stanford University finance officer, now a consultant on the subject. And parents bore it. Throughout the '80s, says Meyerson, parents came increasingly to feel that a college education was a necessity, a direct conduit to a high-paying job. Easy financial credit, moreover, made it possible for parents to borrow large sums of money; doing so for college became more socially acceptable. From 1983 through...
...complained, "is almost as bad as NRC's reaction to Three Mile Island." Inside the agency, a rift developed between Jackson and the senior staff that had let things slip. Jackson ordered a safety and compliance review of all U.S. nuclear plants, offering utilities a two-year amnesty to correct problems they identify. "We must demonstrate vigilance, objectivity and consistency," she says. "I don't accept the argument that compliance is somehow at odds with safety...
Levitin's piece on "Har Homa" was a curious mixture of the ill-informed, the self-contradictory, the vindictive (indeed racist), and--on one issue--the correct...