Word: recommendations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than 1,200 users called EIES, for Electronic Information Exchange System. Operated by the New Jersey Institute of Technology, EIES has counted among its membership Author Alvin Toffler and former Federal Communications Commissioner Nicholas Johnson. Brand will tap the expertise of EIES and invite its entire community to recommend favorite pieces of software. Whole Earth staffers will then test the programs, weeding out items that are not first-rate. There will be few negative entries in the catalogue. Says Brand's editor at large, Art Kleiner: "Pans would have to be prime examples of some serious...
...court or jury, illegal as well. Apart from whoever took them, anyone in the Reagan camp who used the papers could conceivably be found guilty of receiving stolen goods. If any evidence of theft or bribery develops, the Justice Department will presumably determine whether it will prosecute or recommend the appointment of a special prosecutor
...coal-burning power plants and factories, such as those in the Midwest, would in fact significantly reduce the acidity in rain, snow and other precipitation that is widely believed to be sapping the life from fresh-water lakes and forests in the Northeast and Canada. The panel did not recommend any specific action. But, concluded Committee Chairman Jack Calvert, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, if industry gets "off the dime" and lawmakers mandate emission controls, "we'll guarantee an effect...
...debates over the South African issue, the Committee often divided along the lines that split the group over many of the shareholder resolutions. The four student members and one professor formed something of a progressive block, tending to recommend votes against management on shareholder resolutions and to urge divestiture from all companies operating in South Africa. This group, joined by one or two liberal alumni, and aided by the absence of two or three conservative Committee members, often carried a majority of the Committee in favor of socially responsible shareholder resolutions. On the other side of many shareholder resolutions...
...open meeting of the Legal Education Committee draws 450 students. For more than two hours, students and professors debate the new grading policy. The next day, in closed session, the committee votes to recommend that the faculty rescind its vote...