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...makers to come to the Bay State. In most places the commissions will get all the necessary permits, persuade hotels to offer discounts, scout out locations and even provide someone to take the director's spouse shopping. The Illinois office has a geography expert on staff who can pinpoint the location a script requires and requisition a state helicopter to show it to the director...
...Mathematician George Dantzig in 1947. Problems are conceived of as giant geodesic domes with thousands of sides. Each corner of a facet on the dome represents a possible solution to the equation. Using the simplex method, the computer scours the surface of the dome millions of times to pinpoint the corner with the most likely solution. But the method is slow, and it works only when there are merely a few thousand variables to sort through. Says Karmarkar: "Once you get above 15,000 or 20,000 variables, the method sort of runs out of steam...
...with an array of high-tech methods. "They've moved into the 20th century politically," says Washington-based Labor Consultant Victor Kamber. "Now they use direct mail and laser-printed letters. They show videodisks in union halls." Two years ago, aided by computers, the AFL-CIO started to pinpoint unregistered members and sign them up. In Alabama, registration among members in one Sheet Metal Workers' local shot from 40% to more than 90%. Last month, AFL-CIO President Kirkland took to the road in a "solidarity van," going on a two-week, get-out-the-vote odyssey across...
...When fully operational in 1986, EDGAR will allow investors using personal computers and a telephone to get instant access to the 5 million pages of corporate financial information filed annually with the SEC. By interrogating EDGAR, investors will be able to identify companies with poor earnings performance or pinpoint firms whose stock is selling below book value. Claims SEC Chairman John Shad: "EDGAR has the potential to revolutionize the methods under which investment decisions are made and executed...
...Braak is a spectacular new find, but scarcely the only one. Other salvors are finding sunken treasure by using computerized navigational devices and techniques developed for oil exploration and military navigation. Magnetometers, often used to detect ferrous metals, can pinpoint such common shipboard fittings as iron nails, barrel staves and anchors...