Word: ince
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...company, Open Market Inc., located in the northeastern corner of Cambridge, has developed a WebServer technology that would allow secure transmission of confidential information such as credit card numbers over the Internet...
Last week, the University chose James R. Houghton '58, the Chief executive officer of Corning, Inc., to replace Charles P. Slichter '45 as a member of the Harvard Corporation, the University's highest governing board. We were disaapointed with the University's choice, since Houghton appears as just one more corporate executive on a body with precious few academics. The Corporation is not merely responsible for the fiscal operation of the University, but also must approve the decisions of Harvard's faculty. Thus the Corporation's composition has a direct impact on the academic functioning of the University...
...stakes, not even the FCC's behavior. One of its own commissioners publicly attacked the probe, branding certain actions "misguided." Even the form of the investigation is unusual, with the commission's lawyers demanding documents from throughout Murdoch's U.S. empire and ordering depositions from Murdoch, former Fox Inc. chairman Barry Diller and a dozen other current and former Fox officials...
Felsher collected the narrative thread so that others could weave the story (most notably the authors of Time Inc.'s three volumes of corporate history, published by Atheneum from 1968-86). At first she helped staff members cull their files to decide what should be consigned to the wastebasket and what saved. Anything of historical interest went to the fledgling archives: Henry Luce's 1922 plans for the launch of TIME; March of Time radio transcripts; files from waggish Fortune editor and publisher Eric Hodgins, author of the best seller Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House ("He didn't write...
Though Time Inc. continued to grow over the years, the flow of documents lessened--due to the advent of computers. Shortly after her appointment as archives manager, Felsher took action. "We were losing a lot of history," she says. She took a class in oral history at Columbia University, then began targeting people whose recollections she wanted to preserve on audiocassettes. Later, she conducted interviews with a video camera. "It takes a lot of nerve to interview a journalist," she says...