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...since the forced breakup of Standard Oil Co. in 1911. In it, the Government charged that International Business Machines Corp. exercised such overwhelming power in the burgeoning data-processing field that genuine competition was impossible. The case has droned on fruitlessly since then; federal prosecutors have been forced to sift through 27 million documents provided by IBM in its defense. Last week, in response to a court order demanding that it spell out precisely how IBM should be punished, the Government took a time-honored legal zig and asked for the ultimate. IBM, it said, should be broken up into...
...with social or political overtones." So, to forfend this fragile galaxy of genial political incompetents from overtaxing their powers of decision, the Austin report would entrust the power to formulate University moral investment policy to a "single officer of substantial standing, with a small staff, who would invite and sift suggestions from all members of the University community with respect to what might be termed the nonfinancial aspects of the University's role as investor...
Interestingly enough, a musical sans clowns or waifs like Follies, which tries to treat mature women in a mature way, encounters substantial audience resistance. The show's actresses are seasoned by age, skill and valiance; Follies celebrates women who have learned to sift the grain of truth from the chaff of illusion, and the paths to its box office windows are now only half-beaten. What better evidence that the theater cannot profess a maturity that its audiences do not possess...
...must sift through the terminology of the various prizes to see which ones may be opened to Radcliffe women," Steiner said. "We are hopeful that Harvard will be able to open up some of its prizes to both men and women...
...semantic analysis and thematic recognition by computers. The CIA, for example, collects enormous amounts of raw intelligence data from which meaningful patterns must be inferred. The sheer bulk of data makes the process too laborious to be done by hand. Programming a computer to recognize important themes and sift out relevant data would greatly reduce the human workload. The FBI could also use such a technique for tapped phones: instead of having an agent listen to all the conversations, a computer equipped to recognize spoken words could monitor the phone and print out conversations relating to themes it had been...