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...decision: How high are local property taxes? What are the prevailing wage rates? After supplying the relevant data for each alternative building site, the executive simply hits a button and lets the computer come up with a recommendation. Naturally, the last word does not rest with the machine. The user is free at any time to adjust the criteria and watch how those changes affect the proposed outcome. Thoughtware's Trigger ($495), another management assistant, helps an executive track his business's performance. Should sales, costs or inventory, for example, get too far out of line, the program warns...
...advent of the computerized library has also brought new problems. Computers have a way of making simple research tasks more difficult--for example, when a casual user needs computer instruction just to find a book. Even trained librarians say there is an art to performing an efficient data- base search; an awkwardly phrased query can quickly lead to information overload, generating hundreds of responses. At the same time, computers can be too efficient, eliminating what is called the serendipity factor. "The real joy of scholarly research is discovering something valuable in the process of looking for something else," says Arnold...
...million more available from contact sheets and negatives, the collection houses all the pictures taken for the company's magazines and books, going back to the early 1930s. Last year the library circulated more than 95,000 prints and slides. Almost 40,000 went to TIME, the largest user of the collection, for reference or reuse; some 350 actually saw print...
Cordless and snout-shaped, the Dustbuster is 14 1/4 in. long and weighs 1.4 lbs. To clean up small domestic disasters, the user grabs the Dustbuster from its wall rack, vacuums up the mess and returns the machine to its base. There, its three nickel-cadmium batteries are recharged so that it will be ready for the next spill. Life expectancy: 150 hours, or five years of 15-to-20-second bursts...
...equipment user," added Sorensen. "The main thing [is whether] her husband will be able to find a job in this area... MIT might be more of the place...