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...pitfalls of office automation, though, can be as great as the promise. Companies that automate with planning and foresight enjoy leaps in output, while those that rush blindly into the uncharted world of the office-of-the-future come soon enough to regret it. Adding word processors and an electronic mail system to a department filled with middle managers might simply boost their output of pointless memos or reams of undigested numbers, thereby actually adding to company overhead instead of paring it back. Says a staffer at Apple Computer Inc., a leading manufacturer of personal computers: "We found ourselves generating...
Stockman said at a later White House press conference that he regretted and withdrew his own "poor judgement and loose talk." "I deeply regret any harm that I've done," he said, adding, "I am grateful for this second chance to get on with the job the American people sent President Reagan...
...been a pipe dream ever since I was 12 years old. Ten years from now, I'm afraid it would be something I'd regret never having done. "he says...
...though she says she loved the high calibre and intensity of Harvard field hockey, she was juggled between positions her freshman and sophomore years, and "never really found a home." She does not, she insists, regret the move indoors to volleyball...
Teresa Ward, editor of the Slum and Gravy, the Point's student newspaper, adds her regret that "Some people at Harvard might think we're war-mongerers or unfriendly." Not so, says Ward, pointing out that many of the cadets here for the weekend will specifically try to eliminate the stereotype, while at the same time "finding out what these preppy colleges are all about...