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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Landover, Md.: "Telephone operators used to be a voice with a smile, but automation has depersonalized their jobs." Courtesy and carefulness remain important but elusive factors in many service-industry tasks. Notes Columbia University Professor Alan Westin, an authority on office automation: "In these types of jobs, companies who count numbers too closely will lose their edge...
...July 12 story entitled "Dancin' Six Weeks Away" did not make clear that although participation in the Dance Program does not count for credit Harvard, the program is nonetheless formally linked to the Harvard Summer School...
...assistance will at last allow them to map out a plausible military strategy. "We can program ahead for the next 16 to 17 months," said Alfonso Robelo, one of the three top rebel political chiefs who lead the United Nicaraguan Opposition. "For the first time we can count on more permanent support." But the military aid will also put pressure on the contras to show some results in Nicaragua. Insisted Louisiana Democrat and Contra Backer Buddy Roemer: "There will be no blank checks for the contras...
...count indictment alleges that between September 1982 and July 1985 Cantley and five of his accomplices, including Joseph Vito Mastronardo Jr., the son-in-law of former Philadelphia Mayor Frank Rizzo, operated a $1 million-a-week, five-state gambling ring. They hid their profits, the indictment states, by changing cash into bank checks and money orders, which then made their way into numerous Shearson accounts. The funds were mostly used to buy municipal bonds. Thus the defendants allegedly managed to launder their gambling proceeds by putting them into legitimate investments...
...Lost Ark. Now ILM's handiwork seems to be everywhere. The company created the effects for six of last year's releases, among them Cocoon (for which ILM technicians won their seventh visual-effects Oscar), Back to the Future, Young Sherlock Holmes and Explorers. And that does not count smaller jobs on films like Out of Africa. (The train that wends its way through the African landscape in the opening credit sequence is actually a miniature built by ILM and inserted later into the scenic footage...