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...story on George Orwell [Nov. 28] provided a penetrating analysis of a book that is often misunderstood. Readers of Nineteen Eighty-Four should not fear the events described in the novel but take them as a warning of what could happen. Orwell's intentions were not to predict the future but to encourage people to think about it in an intelligent...
...from the basic black model to designer styles and gimmicks like the Pac-Man special. Opportunities for growth-and disaster-abound. Technicom International, a young Darien, Conn., company that sells residential phones and small-business communications systems, captured revenues of $43 million in its first full year. Wall Streeters predict, however, that newcomers to the telecommunications competition will have a high mortality rate...
...three Achievement Test scores to the option of submitting five Achievements and no SAT--is in one sense flexible and forward-looking. Admissions studies have indicated for several years now that scores on the Achievement Tests, which are detailed exams on specific high school subjects, tend to predict freshman adacademic performance better than scores on the more general and less curriculum-based SAT. Test experts--both at Harvard and nationwide--have recently argued that the SAT reflects not verbal or mathematical "aptitude," as advertised, but rather a high school senior's lifelong exposure to good books and magazines and analytic...
...student has even less control over: the quality of the high school curriculum. A student at a mediocre high school may have little chance of scoring well on the verbal SAT, but is he really any more likely to ace the Chem Achievement? Ironically, the fact that Achievements predict freshman grade point averages better than SATs do reflects this very imbalance. Obviously the best-prepared high school seniors will start out with the highest grades, but, as the admissions office constantly points out, there are more important goals than assembling a class that will get straight A's. And given...
...police officials are already planning additions to the computer, although they hesitate to predict a definite timetable for building it up. "This system will be dated in six or seven years. Then we'll be able to get something for half the money that can do three times as much," Nagle says...