Word: bionics
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PERCY HAS a computer in his head, apparently. More unfolds the water-supply plot with the symmetry and cunning of a Creole Hercule Poirot. But agents more intimidating than Bionic Bridge players lie at the end of the molar-mystery. More discovers a kiddie-porn racket which Percy depicts too graphically for my taste...
...John Parker, an aspiring lawyer from Tobsfield, said his last starring role was six years ago, as the Bionic Man in a sixth grade play...
...generation later the Japanese are discovering that the challenges of success can be just as tricky as the hardships of defeat. Now that the bionic yen has driven up the price of Japan's products in foreign markets and angry trade partners are threatening to obstruct those exports, the Japanese are trying to change once again. Government officials are looking to make the Japanese more voracious consumers, thus loosening dependence on exports and boosting demand for imports. Sacrifice is out, self-indulgence is in. The Japanese are being encouraged to work less, play more, save less, spend more and, while...
...bionic breakthrough has sparked a wave of well-wishing telegrams to Clark and his family, including one from President and Mrs. Reagan, and calls from all over the world-one from a Soviet reporter requesting information. One unhappy occurrence: perhaps alerted of the Clarks' absence by news reports, vandals ransacked their home...
...latest press conference, Reagan made fewer errors than usual. He glanced at notes (a crutch that must have bothered an actor good at remembering his lines). But as he says himself: "I have never claimed to be a whiz kid, a robot, a bionic adding machine or a walking encyclopedia...