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...program is underway this week which may help freshmen who are unsure of their concentration to select spring courses...

Author: By Jean E. Englmayer, | Title: Program to Help Freshmen Find Spring Courses for Majors | 2/3/1984 | See Source »

Companies often select their best and brightest employees for teleworking because those workers require little super vision. Even so, the designated home workers may feel out of touch with the office and fear the possibility of being passed over for promotion because they are out of sight. Says Nilles: "You need good management to make the programs work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Telecommuting from a Flexiplace | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...late-evening news show Nightline, which since March 1980 has built an average audience ranging from 5.1 million to 6.8 million viewers for discussions of issues as sensitive as child abuse and as complex as nuclear war games. Unlike the early-evening anchors, who help select stories but have little role in the coverage of most of them, Koppel controls almost every word that is spoken during Nightline. Most of each show is live interviews conducted by him. Often he must interweave five or six participants who represent conflicting viewpoints and speak by satellite from several countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: As Hot as He Is Cool | 1/30/1984 | See Source »

...PLEASED that the majority has condemned the University's discipline of a select few of the protestors at Caspar W. Weinberger '38's November address. Certainly this action reeks of selectivism, political repression, and undue delay...

Author: By David L. Yermack, | Title: No Limits to Action | 1/25/1984 | See Source »

...done legally or illegally, through personal effort or inheritance or marriage. Luck can play a role; so can skill, brains, ambition and opportunity. But big money, the kind of money that buys expansive estates and ocean-going yachts, California vineyards and professional sports teams, is usually reserved for a select...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Making a Mint Overnight | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

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