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...institutions via satellite. Through these links, speeches and seminars at any of these institutions can be viewed by faculty and students in all the others. Elsewhere, universities have launched even more ambitious ventures. Stanford offers engineering courses by closed-circuit TV so that employees in high-tech companies throughout Silicon Valley can attend class without leaving their place of work. The University of Washington gives televised courses to supplement the education of medical students in places as distant as Alaska, Idaho and Montana...
That was two years ago. In the course of his humor counseling since, he has tried to find a funny bone in the Internal Revenue Service, the San Francisco police department, the board of directors of the California Business Bank, any number of software manufacturers in Silicon Valley, the University of Santa Clara business school, a group of Navy missile engineers and the National Conference of State Legislatures, all of which have paid hundreds of dollars to hear him out. Though Kushner has had to shore up his income by writing for legal newspapers, his oddball calling just now appears...
...doing is fitting humor into traditional communications theory, into traditional management policy. In Silicon Valley, my message is that high tech doesn't have to be dry tech. There you have techies talking to techies, and even techies think it's boring...
...industry built of iron and steel is showing an affinity for the silicon chips of high technology. Railroads are the third-biggest private users of computers, after airlines and banks. At Burlington Northern operations headquarters, a battery of terminals has replaced a 65-ft. wall display that was formerly used for monitoring the whereabouts of locomotives. Southern Pacific, which developed the Sprint long-distance telephone service and sold it in 1983 to GTE for $740 million, is currently developing another advanced communications system. In a venture with Santa Fe and Norfolk Southern, the company is creating a coast-to-coast...
...shares, which slumped in 1984, are on the move again, led by IBM, the top U.S. computer manufacturer. Since the beginning of the year, IBM's stock has risen 10.4%, to 135 3/4. Hewlett-Packard, another computer firm, has gone up 9.2%, to 37, and National Semiconductor, which makes silicon chips for computers, has increased 13.7%, to 13 1/2. Investors have scored even bigger gains with stocks in companies that produce machine tools, which climbed 21% in January, and shares in hospital-management firms, up 17%. Not surprisingly, brokerage houses stand to profit handsomely from the running of the bulls...