Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chairman of Lotus Development, the largest independent U.S. software firm. Though he will not start a new firm that would compete with Lotus, Kapor said, he is not sure what he will do next: "I'm not leaving with a business plan in my pocket or any intention to write one tomorrow...
...addition, the report contains 37 pages of suggestions that are, in effect, a how-to guide for citizen action against pornography. The text includes suggestions on how to conduct a "court watch" program ("Citizens . . . will write to the prosecutor, judge or police officer and relay their opinions of the investigation, prosecution and disposition of the case") and how to monitor the lyrics of rock music ("Many popular idols of the young commonly sing about rape, masturbation, incest, drug usage, bondage, violence, homosexuality and intercourse...
These travels led her to create a special concentration in the literature and social criticism of Black and women writers, her write-up in Glamour said...
...turned a profit only in West Germany and Italy. Araskog thought that if he could adapt System 12 to U.S. standards, he could sell it to the regional Bell companies, which were formed after the AT&T breakup in 1984. But ITT was unable to write software that would mesh System 12 with most existing U.S. phone networks. AT&T and Northern Telecom both made popular systems, and Araskog lost $125 million before he abandoned the project in February...
...riots. He had previously worked on a computer while on a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. Says Meyer: "Harvard had an IBM 7090, and I learned to apply it to social science." Meyer's findings on the riots helped the Free Press win a Pulitzer. It also inspired him to write Precision Journalism, a computer reporters' bible that came out in 1973. Among the first reporters to turn to the machine were the Philadelphia Inquirer's Donald Barlett and James Steele. They used an IBM for a 1973 series that won two national awards for revealing disparate court sentencing of violent...