Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion. If a majority of Bendix shareholders sold out to either of them, the winner would assume control of Bendix, and then the two firms would carve up the captured company. The details have not been worked out, but United would probably take Bendix's automotive and machine-tool businesses, while Martin Marietta would get several lines of aerospace products...
...sports training to improve physical self-confidence. But the biggest challenge for teachers is to devise a curriculum commensurate with the student's real intelligence. At Forman, students listen to a recording of, say, Romeo and Juliet while reading the play. Computers are becoming an important teaching tool because they promote sequential learning and logical development. For the student able to handle calculus but not the sequences of numerical calculations, the computer allows him to bypass his basic problem. Dyslectic students can now take untimed SATs for college admission. Some 30 institutions have special programs for dyslectic students, including...
...questions of potential conflict of interest. Peter Funt, editor and publisher of On Cable, characterized the plan as "sort of like inviting the fox in to give a lesson to the chickens." Said Merrill Panitt, editorial director of TV Guide: "Our feeling is that if we became a marketing tool for cable companies, it could compromise our editorial integrity." Replied Grunwald: "TV-CABLE WEEK will maintain complete editorial independence and provide straightforward, unbiased information...
...clearly demonstrated, space technology has made huge strides since then, and many nations are eager to share in the benefits. Thus the conference's major theme: how to use for the good of all mankind what U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru archly called the tool of a privileged...
...Army argues that such lessons are best learned well in advance of real-life combat situations. It's a fantastic tool for training " says Lieut. Colonel Robert Turner, a nuclear-weapons specialist at the Pentagon. Others are not so sure. Jerome Wiesner, former president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and sometime presidential science adviser, suggests that no amount of computer training will enable U.S. generals to prevent Europe from being turned into a big lake" if there is a nuclear war on that continent. One young computer buff who recently used Janus found the experience extremely unsettling...