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A better way certainly seemed in order. Opened in 1950 as a gift to the city from Kate Wollman, a banking heiress, the rink quickly became the favorite spot for tens of thousands of skaters to do their twirls (and spills) and sip hot cocoa on a wintry afternoon. In...
Six miles of fiber-optic and coaxial cables run through the S.I.A.C. complex, which communicates with equally impressive banks of machines at major brokerage houses, as well as with tens of thousands of personal computers, passive desktop terminals, printers and other devices. S.I.A.C. relays information to at least 500 display...
The decision was a victory for General Motors and Ford, which faced combined fines of up to $600 million because their vehicles did not and would not meet the 27.5-m.p.g. standard for 1986, 1987 and 1988. Both companies had campaigned vigorously against rigid enforcement of the law, contending that...
Supporting the arguments of both Ford and GM, NHTSA Administrator Diane Steed said that a "higher standard would have resulted in the loss of jobs for tens of thousands of workers." Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca attacked the decision, calling it a "mockery of the law" and "unfair to manufacturers who...
While a few percentage points in test accuracy entail the prospect of tens of thousands of false positive results and falsely labelled individuals, screening suffers from another kind of subjectivity. It is politically easiest to propose or implement screening of groups that are already defined and over which the government...