Word: users
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the approved budget orders no lay-offs, City Manager Robert W. Healy said late last week that 80 municipal positions now vacant will not be filled next year. He explained that the city's fixed costs, such as annual user fee payments, to the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority have increased with inflation...
Fairchild Republic Co., division of Fairchild Industries (1981 revenues: $1.4 billion), is an enthusiastic new user of shop-floor training. Morale in its Farmingdale, N.Y., plant that builds U.S. Air Force jets collapsed early this year when the company laid off almost 1,000 workers-about 15% of its labor force. Absenteeism averaged 5.3% of scheduled working time. Disputes sometimes led to shouting matches on the plant floor that were settled by fistfights in the parking lot. Some Fairchild Republic officials believed that the supervisors were a key to the company's problems. Workers were being made shop-floor...
...logical. Simply put, a Computers section added up. As TIME said in its 1978 cover story "The Computer Society," the new microtechnology is akin in significance to the moment prehistoric man first wrapped his fingers around a rock, thereupon enormously improving his competitive advantage against nature by becoming a user of tools. Computers constitute yet another quantum leap in the ability to cope with the world. This week's cover, "The Computer Generation," is in part the story of young minds wrapping themselves around their computer consoles every bit as enthusiastically and hopefully as the primitive clutching that rock...
...always lend themselves readily to what is the most intellectually demanding use of the computer: learning how to program it. For this, the inexpensive, easy-to-operate personal computer, entirely self-contained and relying on equipment immediately at the student's side, is an ideal instrument-much more "user friendly," as manufacturers like to say, than big machines. Yet even with a handy micro, programming can overwhelm the uninitiated. The programmer and computer must "speak" a common language...
Only in Alaska may a person possess a small amount of marijuana. Yet almost anywhere in the nation it is possible to find stores selling pipes and other gear with which to enjoy the illicit weed. Called head shops ("head" is slang for a frequent drug user), they number about 15,000 and do an estimated $2 billion in annual business. But after an 8-to-0 U.S. Supreme Court ruling last week, high times could turn into hard times...