Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rabbit.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!alice!rabbit!wolit 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 Article-I.D.: rabbit.3232 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 Lines: 11 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+