Word: spurs
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...proliferation of CAD/CAM technology, however, should not push untold numbers of workers into the street. CAD/CAM'S spread seems much more likely to spur demand for large new numbers of computer-savvy technicians. Says Seymour Melman, head of Columbia University's industrial engineering department: "We will need people who can understand the whole complex electronic and mechanical machinery of these new manufacturing cells, and who can intervene quickly to repair them." Otherwise, warns Melman, downtime from sophisticated electronics gear that suddenly goes on the blink-as it is wont to do-will paralyze factories. Indeed, the new technology...
...mushrooming popularity of personal computers has now begun to spur the development of data banks specially tailored for individual consumers. The Source, which is a subsidiary of Reader's Digest, offers subscribers everything from financial planning to word processing. Source subscribers can monitor the schedule of current legislative activities in the Congress, check the latest changes in airline schedules and send "electronic mail" to other subscribers by using Source computers as a kind of space-age postal system. Gerald Reinen, a Massachusetts business consultant, reports that not only does he use the Source for business applications at the office...
...riddles. He went to war when no one thought it possible and, having restored Arab self-respect, he made a peace that no one had dared to imagine. He moved his people toward a partnership with the West, recognizing that a sense of shared values is a more certain spur to support than a defiance based on striking poses. He eschewed romantic posturing in favor of attainable steps. And he shaped the attainable with a fine sense for the dramatic. He understood that a heroic gesture can create a new reality...
...fate of the American auto industry now depends more on the state of the U.S. economy than on new models from Detroit. Only a substantial decline in interest rates is likely to spur auto sales. Until then, the Big Three will probably continue chugging along in first gear. -By Edward E. Scharff...
Those new positions fall mostly in the Cellular and Developmental Biology (CDB) half of the department, and Biology professors say CDB's desire for autonomy in hiring--as well as in day-to-day operations--from the Organismal and Evolutionary Biology (OEB) half of the department will also spur Biology's planned division into two departments later this year...