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...asked him to be one of its original anchors, Shaw was torn. Network bosses told him it would ruin his career, but Shaw disagreed. "Murrow was on the threshold of the new age," he reasoned. "I thought that a 24-hour news network had to be the last frontier...
...Chen venture aims to push into supercomputing's furthest frontier, a technology called parallel processing. Machines using that technique divide complex problems into pieces, which are then handled by scores or even hundreds of processors working simultaneously. The Reagan Administration is reportedly planning to endorse and underwrite research in the field, since the technology is crucial not only for such applications as weather forecasting and wind-tunnel testing but also for the President's Strategic Defense Initiative...
While campaign politicking may be a new frontier for seniors, their clout has long been felt in Washington. When congressional and Administration budget negotiators sought to cut the deficit in the wake of the Wall Street crash, they briefly considered a proposal to scale down Social Security cost-of- living increases. Congressman Claude Pepper, 87, held a press conference to announce that he would force a separate House vote on the issue. The Gray Lobby went to work. The result? Although programs for the elderly account for one-third of the budget, negotiators dropped the proposal in a fright. "These...
...monument, such as the Mosaic Room in Hitler's Chancellery in Berlin, designed by Speer, he also evokes by implication the noble tradition of German neoclassicism that Speer froze and vulgarized. His charred, plowed landscapes, their heavy paint mixed with straw, are real agricultural terrain, but they are also frontier, no- man's land, graveyard and the biblical desert of Exodus...
Yesterday afternoon here, Wayne Cowley, Colgate goalie, was the last frontier...