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Bennington will in effect receive an interest free loan in the form of payments for the campus from the alumni. The subsequent lease payments will be akin to an extended payback of the initial loan...
...much in principle since the Edison cylinder. On conventional LPs, called analog recordings, images of sound waves picked up by a microphone are traced into vinyl grooves; a kind of aural photograph is "developed" when a stylus retraces the grooves and re-creates the sonic vibrations. Digital recordings are akin to the computer-assisted cameras used in space, which translate images into a series of binary numbers that are later reassembled into pictures back on earth. In digital recording a computer takes 44,000 impressions of sound per sec. and assigns each a numerical value. The numbers are then recorded...
...television and in theaters. On Feb. 18, Universal Pictures simultaneously showed the movie on 17 pay-per-view subscription and cable systems and opened it at 91 moviehouses around the country. It was the first time that a premiering film had also been released on television. The result was akin to the reaction of Frederic, the apprentice pirate in the operetta, upon discovering that his spinsterish nursemaid is not the ideal of female pulchritude: disappointment...
...reason business is good is that the store outlets are open nights and weekends, while conventional brokerage offices keep hours more akin to bankers'. The in-store units also seem to benefit from the "halo" effect of Sears' consumer reputation. Sears is trying to capitalize on this sturdy image with a new television advertising campaign for its financial centers that features Actor Hal Holbrook intoning, "Trust us to make it work for you." (Holbrook is also advertising for a Toledo bank, and last week it sued him and Sears for violating what it said was an exclusive contract...
...first step is to decide what you want the computer to do-play blackjack, manipulate text, juggle figures? Once the task is clearly defined, the programmer lays out a step-by-step procedure for executing that task. Think of these procedures as roughly akin to cookbook recipes. The recipe for playing blackjack, for example, might go something like this: "Get a deck of cards. Shuffle the cards. Deal two cards to each player. Ask the first player if he wants another card. Did the face value of that third card put his total over...