Word: etzioni
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...parade of highly visible corporate misdeeds has sparked the outrage. According to a study by sociologist Amitai Etzioni, a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School, two-thirds of FORTUNE 500 companies were convicted between 1975 and 1985 of serious crimes, from price fixing to illegal dumping of hazardous wastes. Executives at Beech-Nut tried to pass off flavored water as apple juice. Ivan Boesky and a ring of Wall Streeters traded on insider information. Even such an upstanding company as Eastman Kodak, which has won awards for its minority-hiring and other social programs, has felt the heat. Residents...
That said, there is little doubt that Hite has tapped into a deep vein of female dissatisfaction with love relationships. "These are not happy days between the genders," observes Sociologist Amitai Etzioni of George Washington University. "All the rules have been thrown out, and everybody has to invent them as they go along. That's tough." Because of their traditional role as arbiters of relationships, many women see themselves as having to bear the brunt of that burden. "This nation is filled with burned-out women," says Joyce Maynard, 33, the New Hampshire author (Domestic Affairs) and mother of three...
Competition for the student research posts is intense; last year only 10 students were selected from a pool of 300 applicants. The great majority of student researchers are from MIT, but one, Oren W. Etzioni '86, is a Harvard undergraduate...
Modern computers are usually "the exact antithesis" of the human bram, says Etzioni, who works in conjunction with Hewitt. While the brain works relatively slowly yet can do several things simultaneously, the computer runs quickly but can handle only one thing at a time...
Hewitt's goal can be more clearly understood by using the analogy of a court of law, says Etzioni. In making decisions, several computers would contribute evidence supporting one point of view, while others would offer conflicting arguments. Through their intercommunication, the computers would together be able to arrive at a "verdict" which they could not have obtained separately...