Word: basics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...newcomer is priced accordingly. With 20 megabytes of memory on its hard- disk drive, a basic version of the LTE retails for $2,999. A more powerful model offers 40 megabytes of hard-disk memory for $4,999. Even at those prices, the LTE will be a formidable competitor, according to industry analysts. Boasts Compaq spokesman John Sweney: "It's a full-function PC. It gets everything into that same size without any of the compromises that other manufacturers had to make." Compaq is aiming at a hot new market: laptop sales are expected to grow from 834,000 units...
...France, peasants became so accustomed to being told how to live their lives that they looked to the central government for advice on such basic subjects as what crops to plant and where to sell them...
...time expressed official concern about the recent exodus of 50,000 East Germans to the West. Then, in an unprecedented gesture of conciliation, the leadership acknowledged, "We are open to discussion." Hinting that press and travel restrictions might be eased, the statement continued, "Together, we want to discuss all basic questions of our society...
...demands of East Germany's reformers seem mild when compared with the changes unleashed by opposition forces in Poland, Hungary and the Soviet Baltic states. The unfocused New Forum has called for its own legalization, dialogue with authorities and basic civil rights. Only now is it beginning to identify other possible issues: ecological and economic problems, industrial and scientific development. Though the New Forum's ranks are filled with a wide variety of socialists, ranging from doctrinaire Marxists to Western-style Social Democrats, they share the goal of a liberalized East Germany, not a capitalist one. "We are not enemies...
Nonetheless, the two sides are still far apart on such basic issues as the pace of change and who will speak for the black majority. The clergymen handed De Klerk a 13-point agenda for reform demanding that the government lift the state of emergency and free the hundreds of remaining political prisoners, and then within six months abolish apartheid laws and begin negotiations on a new South African constitution with the A.N.C. "If we were to get that kind of commitment," Tutu said, "we would be ready to say to our friends, 'Put your sanctions programs on hold...