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...home run, believe me," exulted Texas Governor Bill Clements. "This is a great day for Texas!" The beleaguered oil-patch state has had relatively few of those lately, but last week it got a potentially Texas-size economic spur. A consortium of 14 U.S. semiconductor firms chose Austin over competing sites in 34 states for its research center, which will spend an estimated $250 million annually. The consortium, called Sematech, for Semiconductor Manufacturing Technology, includes fierce rivals that have joined forces on chip research in the face of bruising foreign competition. Austin's coup could help make it a Sunbelt...
Will it all end serenely? Of course not. Will Leo resurface, maybe to have another birthday party with Pat and Morgani, all bivouacking in their tiny van parked at a curb in Austin, living happily ever after or until arrested for loitering, whichever comes first? Hope...
...highlight of the three-day meet, however, was the fast times of Harvard's top swimmers. Several school records fell, with two aquawomen qualifying for the NCAA Championships, held this March in Austin...
...addition to the Alabama meet, the Ivy crown and the Eastern championships, the Crimson will have a fourth goal: improved success at the NCAA championships, held in March in Austin, Tex. Last year marked the first time Harvard sent swimmers to the meet, and it wishes to improve on that showing...
...strange vacuum, a palpable absence. Ronald Reagan, for so long a vivid presence in the American consciousness, seemed, for a time at least, to be lost, almost vanishing. One thought of a line from A Passion for Excellence by Tom Peters and Nancy Austin: "The number-one managerial productivity problem in America is, quite simply, managers who are out of touch with their people and out of touch with their customers." The President and his customers were living on different planets...