Word: feds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first-time voter and a McGovern volunteer, I am really becoming fed up with political analysts telling the world that I am going to become disillusioned with Senator McGovern for modifying his position on some issues between now and November...
Meadows is no latter-day Malthus prophesying doom on the basis of intuition; instead he has produced the first vision of the apocalypse ever prepared by computer. His team built a computer model of the world, fed the machine masses of data on population and industrial growth rates, farm yields and the like, and constructed "feedback loops" to gauge the effects of changes in one variable, like food production, on another, like birth rates. In restrained, nonhysterical, at times almost apologetic language, the team insists that unchecked growth can have only one outcome: "A rather sudden and uncontrollable decline...
...three years ago in less than 20 months on land reclaimed from Ise Bay, the yard was designed to build two huge ships at the same time with a minimum of manpower. Steel plates are delivered by sea from Nippon Kokan's Fukuyama steelworks 300 miles away and fed into a computer-controlled process in which they are marked, cut, shaped and welded into major hull blocks. Two giant cranes that straddle the building dock then lift these components into place, and they are welded to the hull-again mostly by an automatic process. Another labor-saving device...
...Clerque, the operation will rely mainly on employee groups contracted by their companies. First, the candidate must fill out a 378-item questionnaire on his own and his family's medical histories. That chore over, things are made as easy as possible for him. His questionnaire is fed into a computer. If the electronic brain finds inadequate or conflicting answers, it demands: "More data!" The computer prescribes the test schedule for each individual patient, based...
After that, the process works like a luxurious assembly line. A technician takes blood and sends it to the adjacent laboratory for both blood-cell and chemistry readings. The results, along with those of urinalysis, are fed into the computer, which is programmed to rerun any tests that show questionable results. The electrocardiogram, usually elaborate, is also checked by the computer and can be double-checked if any abnormality appears...