Word: neuman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...terrible to think that nobody ever asked John von Neuman--the real pioneer of computers who invented the stored program concept--'Were you interested in extending the capacity of the human brain, or just in inventing a great machine?' As a historian, I'm very interested in these questions," Cohen said...
...workers for granted. Evidence of their crossing party lines to vote for Reagan in the primaries is sparse, though they clearly helped in Illinois and Wisconsin. While it is true that union leaders have not yet attacked Reagan, there is no reason to assume they will not. Says Robert Neuman, deputy chairman of the Democratic National Committee: "Union leadership has been concerned with Carter and Kennedy. They haven't gotten to Reagan yet. When they do, I think they'll hold the rank and file on issues of concern to workers: right to work, OSHA. Reagan's views are dead...
Says Robert Neuman, who directs an A.C.S. department that is still called manpower studies: "A lot of employers are beginning to wake up to the fact that they have discriminated against women in the past." No similar burst of demand for females is reported in academe. In college chemistry departments, women make up just 2.5% of full-time chemistry faculty...
...suit scheme originated a few years ago in Great Britain, where companies have mastered the art of executive perquisites because exorbitantly high tax rates wipe out almost all benefits of high salaries. Now an old-line Baltimore suit manufacturer, Haas Tailoring Co., is using the idea, and President Irving Neuman is besieged with telephone calls from prospective customers. Says he: "Business is growing like Topsy...