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...even generated excitement. "I've never seen anything like it," says one Manhattan dealer who sold four Macs the first day and has back orders for another 80. "We can't get enough of the Macintosh," reports Greg Register, manager of a computer store in Apex, N.C. Apple's engineers, who decided not to make their machine compatible with IBM's PC or their own Apple II line, were able to take advantage of the in creased power of the latest generation of silicon chips and new software that has made the Macintosh attractive to computer...
...have felt like this at the time; an older man wrote these words in an essay, in a world drastically altered. But Eric's conduct at Eton did not resemble the courtship of success. He idled his way through 4½ years at the apex of English secondary education, growing tall (6 ft. 3 in.) and awkward in the process. He read widely in his favorite authors (Dickens, Thackeray, Kipling, H.G. Wells), contributed some poems to school publications and took part grudgingly in athletics. His father could not afford to send him to Oxford or Cambridge without a scholarship...
Because of the heavy centralization of Soviet mathematic efforts, these key officials wield enormous influence, unlike in the United States, explains Nathanson. "Power flows down from above in a very pyramidal influence. The people at the apex of the pyramid have a very dominating role." Hence, experts say, anti-Jewish sentiment is stronger than in other academic fields...
What could have been the apex of Harvard wrestling history became the nadir of an up-and-down season for the Crimson Saturday afternoon, as the Big Red of Cornell defeated Harvard. 25-16, and all but clinched the Ivy League wrestling championship...
...military--although neither of us would argue that the military has a veto authority. More important, there is nothing in the political make-up of Mr. Andropov which distinguishes him from other members of the Soviet political-military elite. After all, the military industrial complex is at the apex of Soviet power, an approach which has worked very well from their point of view, and there is no reason to change...