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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Aside from keeping Harvard and MIT astronomers in close touch with satellite information. the project is also intended to increase operation efficiency of the satellite, which will begin orbiting the earth...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Harvard-MIT Plan Center For Satellite Control | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

...makes it easier to change wine lists because we can look up prices at a touch on the computer." Most of the software being sold today still goes into mainframe computers used by corporations or the Government. Banks, airlines and other major data processors last year purchased or leased $11.6 billion worth of programs, according to Input, a market-research firm in Mountain View, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wizard Inside The Machine | 4/16/1984 | See Source »

Such paternalistic management of the Houses, especially in the area of tutor selection, may ultimately prove inimical to students' interests. In the worst cases, failure to solicit student advice may leave Masters hopelessly out of touch with students' academic needs and conceptions of how the House should develop...

Author: By Allen S. Weiner, | Title: A House Divided | 4/13/1984 | See Source »

...takeover speculation is building just as the so-called Imagineers seem to be getting back their touch. The firm's latest film, Splash, a romantic comedy about a mermaid, is a smash. During its first weekend, Splash earned $6.2 million, the best performance in Disney's history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disney Whirl | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

...childish vulnerability caught me by the heart and the throat, nowhere else, it seemed. But there was a touch of panic too. I knew that the finger was on me, I was limed by her and would have to struggle to get myself free. Only the space of one day, morning, noon, night, to bring such change! It was there, the trap I had tried to avoid-and would avoid!-the bitter sorrow of a love that is fruitless, pointless, hopeless, agonizing and ridiculous. Once more, the clown's trousers had fallen down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mutters of Life and Death | 4/9/1984 | See Source »

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