Word: processor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...want goods which would more directly enhance their scholarly work. Robert Brustein, Professor of English reiterates his annual wish for "a $5 million endowment for the American Repertory Theater." Failing that, however, the Loeb Drama Center director said he would settle for "a Pac-Man addition to my word processor...
This week's excerpt is the first of two that TIME will present from the book that, the author notes in his preface, "is my own work, typed by me at home on my trusty word processor. " To produce it, he condensed some 5,000 pages of recollections he had dictated daily while serving in the Oval Office. In Part 1, Carter not only reviews the tumultuous days at Camp David but also comments, in an exclusive four-hour interview with TIME, on current Middle East relations and on the policies, foreign and domestic, of his successor, whom he does...
...confrontation at Iowa Beef, the largest U.S. beef processor, comes at a time of generally quiet labor-management relations in the U.S. The last thing most workers want is a long strike in a deep recession. Many unions are giving back past contract gains or accepting meager wage hikes. Nearly 2 million union members, primarily in the auto and trucking industries, have forgone raises in contracts negotiated in the first half of the year. The Labor Department released figures last week on major collective-bargaining agreements showing that from January to June, average salary increases, including cost of living adjustments...
Attempts to move from raw materials into high technology have been troubled too. In the early 1970s, Exxon entered the market for electronic office equipment with innovative products like the Vydec word processor. After a good start, sales wilted under competition from IBM, Wang Laboratories and other office product specialists. In the past three years, Exxon's office division lost $150 million...
...information outlet in the wall just as they now have outlets for electricity and the telephone. This new one would be connected to a cable that ties together, for example, the personal computer in an executive's office with computers of other managers, his secretary's word processor and centralized files or duplication services. A businessman could thus call up information for a report, write it out, send it to duplication and then to the company files with the push of a few buttons. Experts predict that the equipment to tie these various machines together will...