Word: orientedness
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BBN's entry into the computer field symbolizes the company's gradual break since the late 1950s with its research-oriented beginnings. BBN now divides its financial statements into two halves: research and consulting, and computer and communications products. The future profits clearly lie within the latter sales-oriented sector...
Last week the magazine climaxed a yearlong celebration of its 50th birthday with a black-tie party for 2,000 people in New York City's Avery Fisher Hall. They gathered to honor a self-conscious "publishing event": a 616-page special issue of Esquire, hailing "50 Americans who...
Fowler counters that the proliferation of new delivery systems-cable, direct broadcasting from satellites, low-power stations with a range of 15 miles-will ensure diversity and hence fairness. Moreover, he believes that commercial broadcasters should pay a fee to support educational and public service-oriented programming on public TV...
"That's not to say that today's generation, although more profession oriented, is not involved politically," he adds.
Because the current council is split between four neighborhood-oriented, conservative Independents and four liberal progressives backed by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA), with Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci holding a swing vote, a shift in one seat could result in a significant shift in city policy.