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...automate time- consuming chores that are more efficiently done by underlings: accounting, typing, record keeping. Now there is a new genre of software designed to help managers with one job that they alone can do: making the final decisions. One of these new programs, Lightyear ($495), automatically weighs the pros and cons involved in, say, choosing where a new plant should be built. The executive starts by listing the factors that will influence his decision: How high are local property taxes? What are the prevailing wage rates? After supplying the relevant data for each alternative building site, the executive simply...
Will his style stand up in the pros? "As long as he keeps the puck out, he can play any way he wants," said Sheehy...
...have been here before. George Plimpton humiliated himself with the pros. Roger Angell has described a pitcher standing on a "hill like (a) sunstruck archaeologist at Knossos." John Updike, Ring Lardner, Philip Roth, Mark Harris, Robert Coover and other "serious" writers have regarded baseball as a metaphor for the human predicament. What can a puffing 56- year-old add to the overloaded shelf of belles lettres on the summer game...
Student input is "crucial before [the council can reach a decision on any possible changes in the system, since we already know where University administrators, "Masters, and many Council members stand," I evin wrote this fall in a report analyzing the pros and cons of the present system and its alternatives...
...year-old Weiland (below, far left) took a two-day train ride from Florida to return to coach a team that included two Olympic gold medallists, the five top scorers in Crimson history and a few former pros. Weiland, a member of the NHL Hall of Fame, led the Harvard program for 21 years before turning over the reins to current coach Bill Cleary '56 (below, far right...