Word: staff
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...result of student struggle and pressure on the Harvard administration. Ironically enough, these three black admissions officers were used by the admissions office to justify the discontinuation of recruitment by black students. This assertion was of course ridiculous, as the black admissions officers numbered three out of a staff of 20 and were not allowed to focus exclusively on increasing black(or any Third World) admissions...
This week TIME welcomes its newest staff member: PDP-11/34. Programmed according to TIME'S design, PDP-11/34 will speed the handling of the hundreds of queries and reports that flow between the home office in New York City and our 28 bureaus, scattered around the world...
...layout, and draw in boxes and assorted lines. Finally, at the rate of a page every 15 seconds, the system can whisk the whole magazine to our printers in Chicago via telephone wires. TIME will soon acquire yet another computerized device-a Videocomp machine that will enable our editorial staff in New York to see almost exactly how every page will look in the magazine before it is sent off to the printers...
...argues, are infinitely literal-minded; they exercise no judgments, have no values. Fed a program that was mistaken, a military computer might send off missiles in the wrong direction or fire them at the wrong time. Several years ago, Admiral Thomas Moorer, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Senate committee: "It is unfortunate that we have become slaves to these damned computers...
...believe that solving the nation's problems was more important to Congressmen than their re-election worries, debts to special interests and status in the Capital Hill Club. He was wrong. The new breed of young, educated, "professional" Congressmen have gained the appearance of competence (due mostly to their staff's), but they are practically incapable of making the tough choices Carter has been asking them to make...