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...indeed personal computers are to be the wave of Harvard's future, the University must arrange to factor their purchase its financial aid equations. Even more immediately, officials should be thinking of how to ease the current computing crunch, and in particular how to make sure all students have access to cheap and efficient word processing, currently the most glaring example of computer "deprivation...
...Miniaturization, which involves microfilming old books and buying new collections on film. Harvard already does some microfilming and purchases new volumes it doesn't have in paper form. But while it can ease the space crunch, microfilming also demands new space for reading rooms and film viewers. And, says Feng, "not everything is conducive to or a good candidate for microfilming...
...indeed personal computers are to be the wave of Harvard's future, the University must arrange to factor their purchase its financial aid equations. Even more immediately, officials should be thinking of how to ease the current computing crunch, and in particular how to make sure all students have access to cheap and efficient word processing, currently the most glaring example of computer "deprivation...
Spurred by the energy crunch, perhaps by the movie Breaking Away, the story of a youth intent on becoming a world-class racer, the country is developing a passion for pedaling. In 1983 the U.S. Cycling Federation issued 16,000 racing permits (9,000 in 1970); 10 million bikes will be shipped to stores for the country's 100 million riders. So it should have come as no surprise that 200,000 flag-waving aficionados gathered by the tile-roofed, half-a-million-dollar ranch homes in Mission Viejo, 50 miles south of Los Angeles...
Countertrade has been practiced for centuries. The Indians sold Manhattan Island to the Dutch for some beads, cloth and trinkets, and during World War II Adolf Hitler sent Yugoslavia boxcars of aspirin in return for that country's copper. Low commodity prices and a world credit crunch are causing the back-to-barter boom. In just eight years, countertrade in all its forms has grown from an estimated 2% of world commerce to roughly 33%, according to Business Trend Analysts, a New York consulting firm...