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Researchers are talking about having computers monitor the internal workings of cattle, so that farmers could calculate better how to fatten them. The computers could read radio-telemetry signals on body temperature, heartbeat and respiration rates from transmitters swallowed by the cows or carried on backpacks. Already, an electronic entrepreneur named Marvin Marshall tours the dairylands of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio in a Ford Econoline van packed with IBM computer equipment. In two hours he will analyze a farmer's dairy cows and whip out a formula for feed calculated to permit each beast to produce the maximum amount...
...Strom Thurmond: defense of the American way of life from the Russian threat, pursuit of fiscal integrity to wipe out the nefarious national debt, welfare reform to ferret out the cheaters, etc. When Evers isn't talking like an arch-conservative, he's persuading Mississippians he can better fatten their wallets than any other politician. Evers boasts of his Washington connections and how only he can "bring the bacon home to Mississippi." Any ideals he's ever had have given way to practical politics...
Already 590 million of them fatten Americans' wallets and purses, and the easy, pay-later access to goods and services that credit cards offer extends to such exotica as Nevada divorces, surgical work and, in some areas, bail money. Now the ever inventive credit card companies are poised for a new phase of expansion. Growing twice as fast as in recent years, the amount of purchases billed on cards so far in 1978 is up 40%. Americans spend $16 billion a year on cards, and the total is expected to soar to about $50 billion in the late 1980s...
Another complaint is that the student association will become a haven for pre-law Government majors seeking to fatten their resumes at any price. Even if you accept the underlying assumption that people here are that intrinsically evil, the worst that can result is still better than the current status quo. The institutional link would still exist, ready to be taken seriously when conditions warranted it. In addition, I reject the cynicism inherent in this objection. I know that some members of any organization privately see it only as a stepping-stone, but I would wager that...
...Trib will "fight for a better climate for business," wrote Saffir in a signed editorial appearing in the paper's first edition, because "when profits soar payrolls fatten, jobs increase, happiness spreads." The Trib will also "demand a fair policy for labor without self-destructive strikes, brass knuckles and police cordons." Another editorial, on New York's new mayor, Ed Koch, is innocuous. It declares that the paper is neither for him nor against him; it will wait to see how he does. (Presumably, Koch will get good marks at least this week, since he has solemnly proclaimed...