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From: wolit@rabbit.UUCP (Jan Wolitzky)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: "R&D Group"
Message-ID: <3232@rabbit.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 12-Oct-84 17:57:23 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 12 17:57:23 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Oct-84 08:12:25 EDT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill
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Does anyone know anything more about this:

"A syndicate of	29 major corporations, universities and	government labs,
unofficially known as the 'R&D Group,' annually	meets in secret	to trade
confidential information on salaries and other personnel matters...  Because
the syndicate includes some of the electronics industry's largest technology
companies--including AT&T Co. and General Electric Co.	and encompasses
virtually all of the major technology pacesetters, the R&D Group appears to
have a significant and unprecedented role in determining the industry's
working	environment..."
			      Electronic Engineering Times, 10/08/84, p.1+