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...electronic impulses. This introduced Jobs to the concept of timing, critical for understanding a computer, and furnished him with a cornerstone that, according to Wozniak, he never bothered to build on. Says Wozniak: "I doubt Steve was careful down to the last detail, which is really the key to high-level engineering." Shape, not subtlety, was more in Jobs' line, foreshadowing what one Apple manager calls the "technical ignorance he's not willing to admit." It was the practical applications of technology that excited Jobs, whether it was getting together with Wozniak to use "blue boxes" to make free long...
...very fact of a high-level meeting would give momentum to negotiations on the issues that we haven't been able to solve...
...rising over Washington when, promptly at 7 a.m. last Wednesday, Vice President George Bush convened a special high-level meeting in the White House Situation Room. National Security Adviser William Clark was there, along with CIA Chief William Casey, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Special Envoy Philip Habib, who had been hastily summoned home from his diplomatic shuttle in the Middle East. The purpose of the gathering: to find a way to break the impasse in negotiations to secure the withdrawal of Israeli,. Syrian and Palestine Liberation Organization troops from Lebanon. The mood was somber. "Everyone in the Administration...
...your article "Peering into the Poverty Gap" [Nov. 15] you express the opinion that people will need early exposure to computers in order to achieve success in modern society. The primary skills that will be needed in any profession, computer-related or not, are understanding English, familiarity with high-level mathematics, and the ability to comprehend situations and solve problems. Computer programming is not a basic requirement. Modern computer science was developed by scientists and engineers who were not exposed to computers until after the seventh grade...
...review would allow tenants, city officials, and most importantly, high-level Harvard administrators themselves to devise reforms in the office of HRE, which currently operates as a quasi-independent branch of the University...