Word: stephen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stephen Koepp. Reported by William Blaylock/San Francisco, Christopher Redman /Washington and Adam Zagorin/New York
...they'll be run out of town on a rail." Indeed, the new fees have infuriated politicians and consumer advocates. They maintain that the charges usually hit individuals with $1,000 or less in their accounts, while wealthy depositors pay almost no fees and receive lavish services. Contends Stephen Brobeck, executive director of the Consumer Federation of America: "We are witnessing an increasing denial of banking services to the poor. The trend is toward serving the rich and ignoring the rest...
...Whole Earth Software Catalog. Brand's idea was to bring together, for the first time, people from several generations of hackers, and his guests included some of the brightest stars in computing: Ted Nelson, author of Computer Lib, a widely read handbook from the mid-1970s; Stephen Wozniak, who built the original Apple computer; Lee Felsenstein, designer of the Osborne 1; Richard Greenblatt, who developed the LISP machines used in artificial-intelligence research; and Burrell Smith, a one time Apple repairman who went on to build the Macintosh computer...
...technical quality of the broadcasts remains high. WHRB still uses reel-to-reel tapes instead of the simpler but lower-quality carts most stations use, says President Stephen H. Shenefield '85. "People visit here and can't believe we don't use, these machines," he says of the carts. The station avoids another common proactive of cutting down on signal quality to increase range. In addition, the denizens of the Memorial Hall basement use high-quality turntable cartridges...
...July 1966, Stephen Young was walking through the village of Ban Chiang in northeastern Thailand when he tripped across history. "I stumbled over the root of a kapok tree and ended up spread-eagle in the dirt, and under my face was the rim of a pot," recalls Young, who was then a 20-year-old Harvard student spending the summer researching a political-science thesis...