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...choicers defect from the G.O.P. in sufficient numbers to tilt national elections? Stuart Rothenberg, director of the political division of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, says that if Democrats can shift the image of their party toward the center on economic and defense matters and then add the abortion issue, "they have the possibility of fracturing the Republican coalition." Says Democratic National Committee spokesman Mike McCurry: "We're thinking ahead. Are we in a position where we can plan ahead? I don't think...
Perhaps Video Sickness's most valuable asset is the quality of its acting. Its fourteen cast members, the majority of which are drawn from Harvard's improvisational theater groups, add a real vivacity to the film and often save it from lapsing into contrived, run-of-the-mill bad jokes...
Exxon helped fuel the anger last week, when the company's Alaska coordinator, Don Cornett, admitted that the oil company would add some of the cleanup costs to the price of its products. Said he: "If it gets to the consumer, that's where it gets. It's just like any other cost of doing business." Urging Exxon customers to respond by cutting up their charge cards, Ed Rothschild, spokesman for the Washington-based Citizen Energy/Labor Coalition, declared, "Consumers do not have to be added to the list of Exxon's victims...
...Add to that a work ethic gone mad. "Work has become trendy," observes Jim Butcher, a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. But he and other professionals acknowledge the toll that such a relentless pace takes on creativity. No instrument, no invention, can emit an utterly original thought. "I flew 80,000 miles last year," says economist James Smith of the Rand Corp. "You start losing touch with things. My work is research, which at its best is contemplative. If you get into this mode of running around, you don't have time to reflect...
Until recently the clientele for Sun workstations has consisted mainly of scientists and engineers. But gradually other users in search of higher performance have been attracted to the machines. The Houston Chronicle has 65 Sun computers in place for its printers and artists, and will soon add 35 more; Greenwich Capital, a Connecticut bond-trading firm, uses five dozen Sun machines...