Word: ordering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jarvis, a California businessman, gives an example. A clerk at a tire shop once told him he would have to pay a bill in cash. "I told him I had an account there," says Jarvis, "but the guy said he had already punched the order up as a cash sale and it would take 10 minutes to redo the whole thing in the computer. Funny thing is, if the system were mechanical, you'd simply cross out cash and write in charge. The guy said, 'Yeah, that's what we used to do.'" Such experiences have persuaded Jarvis to keep...
Total abstinence is an impractical solution, experts agree--especially for people who must use modern technology in their work. "It's like an eating disorder: one must learn to eat normally in order to survive," suggests Dr. Maressa Hecht Orzack, founder and coordinator of Computer Addiction Services at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. Orzack tries to get her patients to recognize the triggers for their destructive behavior and come up with alternative ways for them to feel better...
...fully support Mahathir's recent plans to put the country's economy back in order. But in addition, Malaysians are receptive to a more open society, in particular to a greater degree of press freedom and judicial independence. EE YEW CHAI Kuala Lumpur...
...doubt that Duke needed to change in order to survive, but to some doctors Snyderman represents a shift of power from the stethoscope to the calculator. In 1993, he replaced a longtime department chair with a doctor who also held an M.B.A. A group of dissidents petitioned Duke's board of trustees protesting the changes. But Snyderman survived, and last May his contract was extended again for five years...
...White House chief of staff, ERSKINE BOWLES has had his eye on the exit. This week he expects finally to depart for home and maybe a political career in North Carolina. "As soon as Congress is gone, he's gone," says a White House official. Bowles, credited with bringing order to a chaotic operation and setting a less partisan tone with Republicans, wanted to leave last January, but PRESIDENT CLINTON implored him to stay. The decision is probably one Bowles has at times regretted: only days after he announced that he would stay, the Lewinsky scandal broke. Although Bowles...