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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...evaluating other human beings, the systems produce jealousies, morale problems. The beauty of our system is that it's done totally by computer." Each school will receive projections on how students should score on national achievement tests, based on the past three years' performances. In schools that outperform the computer projections, every teacher will pocket an extra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bold Quest For Quality | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...dimwit. When it worked, it did so only for short bursts because its tubes kept burning out. Built to calculate artillery firing tables, the half-million dollar ENIAC could perform 5,000 additions or subtractions per second. Today almost any home computer, costing only a few hundred dollars, can outperform poor old ENIAC as a "number cruncher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Dimwits and Little Geniuses | 1/3/1983 | See Source »

...grants at Xerox Corp., explain that they might have paraphrased an old Jamaican-sect expression as a theme: "How can African man live at IBM without losing himself?" The answer: he cannot. They conclude that even where overt discrimination does not exist, black managers feel they must not only outperform their white competitors to get ahead, but also hide their racial identity behind the mask of the organization man. As a result, less accommodating or more outspoken blacks do not get promoted, and companies are deprived of their particular viewpoints and skills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Myth of the Black Executive | 12/6/1982 | See Source »

...goes without saying that few septagenerians can keep pace with collegiate athletes--let alone outperform them But after devoting over 50 years to his sports. McCurdy has little trouble winning pull-up duels or victory laps...

Author: By Becky Hartman, | Title: Bill McCurdy | 5/21/1982 | See Source »

Rare volumes outperform gold, diamonds and stocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Clothbound Collectibles | 4/26/1982 | See Source »

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