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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the computer program be comes available to commercial users, American Airlines will be far from the only customer waiting in line. Bell Labs' parent company, AT&T, will probably employ the algorithm to route millions of telephone calls through hundreds of thousands of cities and towns more efficiently and profitably. Exxon has expressed interest in Karmarkar's program to help improve its allocation of supplies of crude oil among various refineries. For many large companies, says Graham, finding the best solution, as opposed to one that is merely workable, "can mean the difference between a good balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Folding the Perfect Corner | 12/3/1984 | See Source »

...Fred Furner--"a handsome, athletic-looking young man, the type that directors employ to battle carnivorous vegetables"-- finds himself matter-of-factly in love with BBC star Lady Rosemary Radley. The British Museum, his research on Poet Gay, his semi-estranged photographer wife back home, none of this can check his ecstatic infatuation. Never minding that he must soon return to teach summer school and never noticing "her assumption of a teasing impulsive intimacy which yet holds its victims at arm's length," Turner succumbs, willingly...

Author: By Clark J. Freshmen, | Title: Why Do Intellectuals Fall in Love? | 11/30/1984 | See Source »

Since Harvard Square businesses employ many college students, they usually must replace a large number of summer employees who return to school with local college students. This fall, however, there have been far fewer applicants for the open positions, merchants report...

Author: By Emily J.M. Knowlton, | Title: Employee Crunch Hits Harvard Square | 11/20/1984 | See Source »

...designed as both a conservation program and a job-training measure. Approved overwhelmingly by the House and Senate, the bill would have provided $225 million for an American Conservation Corps, patterned after the New Deal's Civilian Conservation Corps, to employ up to 37,000 teen-agers on federal property. Supporters said it would help reduce the nation's 18.8% teen-age unemployment rate. To President Reagan, however, the measure represented a "discredited approach to unemployment." In vetoing the bill last week, he stated, "America's unemployed youth would be better served by reducing federal spending...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Legislation: No Help Wanted | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

Seward and his colleagues at the Center for Astrophysics use the data of ancient supernovae and simultaneously employ the latest astronomical technology to reconstruct the history of stars that exploded hundreds of years...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Bringing Dead Stars Back to Life | 11/2/1984 | See Source »

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