Word: sarnoff
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According to Richard S. Rosenbloom, president of Hillel's board of directors and Sarnoff professor of business administration, in an effort to secure a site for a new home, the campus Jewish organization has begun talks with HRE, which manages the University's non-academic holdings...
...interest book trade has been transformed by at . least 16 major acquisitions, from the 1986 purchase of Doubleday by West Germany's Bertelsmann (price: $500 million) to last year's takeover of Macmillan by British publishing magnate Robert Maxwell ($2.7 billion). As early as 1987, Warner Books chairman William Sarnoff quipped at the booksellers' convention in Washington that soon "we'll all just meet at the office of the lone remaining publisher." At this point, according to James Milliot, editor of the industry newsletter BP Report, the top six publishing houses reap 60% of all adult-book revenues, in contrast...
...soul of the new machine, developed in conjunction with the David Sarnoff Research Center, is the same basic technology used by U.S. missiles to distinguish between Soviet and American warplanes. A sensor scans the space in front of the TV searching for patterns of light and dark -- the shine of a nose, the line of a mouth -- that suggest the presence of a face. A computer then makes more detailed scans at higher and higher resolutions, trying to match facial features to those of family members stored in its memory. (An unfamiliar face would be recorded as a "visitor.") When...
...eyes have it. Reading questions aloud is boring, even on C-SPAN. None of the courtroom wizards on L.A. Law use crib sheets. Explains Dorothy Sarnoff, a corporate-image adviser: "When you read, we don't see the eyes, so we don't know what you're feeling...
Word of the Hunts' action came as a welcome surprise to Wall Street. Said Paul Sarnoff, an analyst at Paine Webber Mitchell Hutchins: "I didn't think they would ever sell all that silver." Investors were happy to see that the Hunts have largely left the silver scene. The price of the commodity jumped more than 5% after the sell-off became known and closed the week at $6.32 an ounce...