Word: nonresearch
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...college met its requirements by canceling its order for a 7090 and instead buying an IBM 1401 -- a simple nonresearch "baby computer" (price: $80,000) that is roughly 100 times less powerful and used for different purposes. "It's like the difference between a BB gun and a cannon," says a former top salesman, Ken Crider, who was "shocked" that IBM management allowed Perot to walk away with a commission on the original order...
...almost graduates when University Hall was occupied by students in April. King admits that his data gave him no inkling of the climate of political activism and rapid change which swept into Harvard in the wake of the strike. King claims that "recent experience with Harvard students in a nonresearch capacity" leads him to believe that "the contrast between our subjects and students of the present day is one primarily of form or content, not of process." The strike was a crisis for many students and King has missed out on data which could prove crucial to his argument...
...designers are aeronautical engineers who constantly test designs in wind tunnels and work in a cloak-and-dagger atmosphere. Two high walls block out Citroen's proving grounds in Normandy, and the no man's land between them is patrolled by menacing dogs and guards. The only nonresearch employee who may enter without a special pass signed by three persons is a conservative economist, Pierre Bercot, 59, who is Citroen's president...
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