Word: processers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...towards the nation's energy needs. In addition, we must encourage a new emphasis on community-based conservation efforts already in place in scattered locales. In Fitchburg, Massachusetts, the town's leaers have united around the conservation theme. With advice from the federal agency ACTION, they are in the process of opening ten neighborhood centers where residents can learn in three hours how to slash their energy costs. Ultimately, the projects organizers hope community volunteers will knock on every door in town and weatherproof thousands of homes. Such measures are unglamorous, but essential to a nation that hopes...
President Bok, in his May letter on consumer boycotts, maintained that the University should not consider the ethical implications of each purchase because the process would impose a "heavy administrative burden." This is an evasion of the issue--the student body's right to make responsible choices about what it consumes. It is, after all, students, not administrators, who use the health services and dining halls...
Friedman, whose company was selected from among 17 firms that originally submitted development proposals, says the price tag on the project has gone up one-third from original estimate. "We knew it would be a slow process," Friedman says, "but nobody anticipated how slow it would...
...readable as its alluring format. While it is impossible to capture a great creative spirit in a short essay, most of the writers involved in this project did not even limit their subjects effectively. Only George Avakian and John S. Wilson focus their works sufficiently. Avakian details the cultural process that changed Louis Armstrong from jazz's first great improviser to a grinning but unartistic national hero, then muses briefly on the corrupting influence that so often accompanies success in the arts. And Wilson has produced, in only nine pages, the gem of the collection: a bittersweet portrait of Fats...
...Government has also begun to recognize its responsibility for the low level of innovation. "Whether intended or not, the Government is inevitably involved in today's innovative process," concedes Richard A. Meserve, policy analyst for the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In the past three years President Carter has shifted the balance of federal R. and D. spending, which this year will total $30 billion, toward basic research. Carter this month will also present the results of a 20-month Commerce Department study on innovation. Presidential recommendations are expected to include modifications of patent and antitrust...