Word: modelling
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...broken up in January, American Telephone & Telegraph lost all its local phone companies but gained the right to invade the computer market. Last week the still giant firm (assets: $34 billion) launched its first major attack. AT&T rolled out six machines ranging from a $9,950 desktop model to a high-powered $340,000 one. Said Stephen McClellan, a data-processing industry analyst for Salomon Bros.: "A T & T's entry into computers is probably the most significant event in the industry since IBM launched its Personal Computer...
...loaded with inscrutable dials and knobs. Now they are as much a part of the tourist's gear as a straw hat and Bermuda shorts. The company most responsible for the change is Japan's Canon (1983 revenues: $2.8 billion). In 1976 it brought out a revolutionary model called the AE-1. Containing a built-in microprocessor, the camera made exposure settings a snap. An aggressive ad campaign that used sports stars to tout the AE-l's easy handling helped Canon become a favorite among amateur shutterbugs. More than 8 million of the AE1 series have...
Canon was started in 1937 by Chairman Takeshi Mitarai, a physician, who took the company name from Kannon, the Buddhist figure that represents mercy. The firm made the first advanced 35-mm camera produced in Japan in the 1930s and stayed with these relatively slow-selling models for decades. But after moving into calculators and copiers in the 1960s, Canon applied its electronics know-how to cameras and devised the breakthrough AE-1. The company followed up in 1979 with the Sure Shot, a highly popular $100 pocket camera that automatically focuses itself by using an infra-red beam...
...Harvard's model provides an ideal which has worked extremely well," Robinson says, but adds that copying the system may be a mistake because of a "lack of money or physical arrangements...
While Harvard may be the model for other newly-evolving residential systems, it has not become stagnant. Administrators point to the $50 million House renovation plan that began in 1981 as the University's largest ever financial commitment to the improvement of residential life. Besides renovations for general up-keep, the University has made special additions to some of the houses--such as a weight room in Mather House, and a Q-RAC nautilus...