Word: existing
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...data bases that now exist in the U.S. range from general information services like the Source, a Reader's Digest subsidiary in McLean, Va., which can provide stock prices, airline schedules or movie reviews, to more specialized services like the American Medical Association's AMA/NET, to real esoterica like the Hughes Rotary Rig Report. Fees vary from $300 an hour to less than...
...away in Cupertino, a town of 34,000 that his company has so transformed that some San Franciscans, about 35 miles to the north, have taken to calling it Computertino. There is no doubt in any case that this is a company town, although the company, Apple, did not exist seven years ago. Now, Apple just closed its best year in business, racking up sales of $583 million. The company stock has a market value of $1.7 billion. Jobs, as founder of Apple, chairman of the board, media figurehead and all-purpose dynamo, owns about 7 million shares of that...
Your story illustrates the tragedy of affirmative action. As long as identifiable racial and ethnic groups are given extra assistance, the suspicion will exist that minority employees who make it have not done so on their own. They will be considered less qualified than people who were not given similar help. Ironically, the black executive is relegated to second-class status by the programs that seek to elevate...
First-class poverty law programs still exist-in Portland, Ore., in Minneapolis, in Palm Beach County, Fla.-but they all enjoy sturdy funding from local government. Many of the more embattled programs are trying new techniques to hold the line. The Atlanta Legal Aid Society has new 45-min. instructional videotapes for its clients. Explains Director Steven Gottlieb: "We show them how to handle dispossession, how to negotiate with landlords, how to do things for themselves in court if they have to." Leaders of the Florida bar are trying to make it mandatory for members to give 25 hours...
...Kans., settled with their three children into a two-room dirt-floor sharecropper's cabin. The Elliotts had been sent to Guatemala by the Wycliffe Bible Translators of Huntington Beach, Calif., who dispatch teams around the world to create the first written form of languages or dialects that exist only in a spoken form. Experts then translate the New Testament into the language-in the Elliotts' case, a difficult Indian