Word: mellone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this, the robot backers offer two answers. One uses the hard language of survival. "If we don't go to robots," says an expert at Carnegie-Mellon, "we'll just continue to lose to Japan and West Germany. Our economy won't grow, and there won't be any new jobs. New jobs have always come from new technology." The other answer is a gentler prophecy of benefits to come...
...monuments and up from pennies and $5 bills; his mythic face is surely one of the most familiar in history. Yet no two of the 120 known surviving photographs of him look exactly alike, a fact surprisingly documented in The Face of Lincoln (Viking; 201 pages; $75). Editor James Mellon spent years combing the country for Lincoln pictures; when original plates or negatives were available, they were meticulously developed to bring out all retrievable detail. This work has brought forth images of astonishing clarity; it sometimes seems possible to number the hairs in the President's beard. Another byproduct...
Such monetarists as the University of Rochester's Karl Brunner and Carnegie-Mellon's Allan Meltzer, who believe that excessive money growth is the main cause of inflation, argue that the Reserve Board is still paying too much attention to interest rates and has reneged on its promise to level off the expansion of money. And many economists in Europe, where confidence in the dollar is crucial, join in the critique. Grumbles Kurt Richebacher, the chief economist of West Germany's Dresdner Bank: "The volatility of the U.S. money supply is not just awful...
Like MIT, Lesley has, in the past few years, been running into unexpected problems. In the late '60s, the college planned to expand its classrooms and dormitories. With the approval of the City Council, the school closed the east end of Mellon Street and constructed the first phase of the new campus...
Schools participating in the program include the University of California at Berkeley, New York State University, Carnegie Mellon University and the business schools at the University of North Carolina and New York University...