Word: networking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dagger spy operations, tiny Israel for years ranked as a world-class player. Agents of MOSSAD, the country's equivalent of the CIA, electrified the world in 1960 by capturing Nazi War Criminal Adolf Eichmann and spiriting him out of Argentina under the noses of authorities. The intelligence network cast by MOSSAD and Shin Bet, Israel's FBI, was so exhaustive in the Middle East that Washington often relied on it for information and analysis. Even when the objectives of Israel's spooks were debatable, their methods virtually defined professionalism and supersecrecy...
...picket line outside the CBS Broadcast Center in Manhattan got an injection of star power last Monday morning. A band of network heavyweights, including Dan Rather, Ed Bradley and Diane Sawyer, showed up to support striking members of the Writers Guild, who walked out two weeks ago over issues of job security. The featured speaker, however, was a less well known correspondent named Ike Pappas, whose current celebrity derives from the fact that he has just lost his job. "I feel very poorly for the people who have to get up every morning and pretend to work for CBS News...
...cutbacks raised other hackles, both inside and outside the network. Word leaked out last week that a dozen of CBS's high-priced stars, including Rather and Sawyer, had offered to take substantial pay decreases if that would save jobs. But the company refused, arguing that positions had to be eliminated for long-term efficiency. Rather wrote an op-ed page article for the Times, headlined FROM MURROW TO MEDIOCRITY?, in which he condemned the layoffs and worried about a "product that may inevitably fall short of the quality and vision it once possessed." Two Democratic members of a House...
Planners are also looking into the possibilities of connecting the catalog to a campus-wide computer network that would allow students to call up listings without actually going to one of the libraries, where MIT will place the public terminals...
Harvard library officials said they have been working on a system similar to the one at MIT, but the earliest the network will be completed is 1989. Aaron said it took MIT slightly more than four years to complete its system, which Harvard officials said is geared toward a library collection much smaller than Harvard...