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...theory, a desktop computer could be a labor-and time-saving boon to executives with a voracious need for information about the state of their businesses. But some managers complain that computers are simply too hard to use. Mervyn Weich, 44, senior vice president of Zayre Corp., a retailing chain, says sitting in front of a terminal and trying to extract information is unacceptably difficult and time consuming. "If I could talk to the computer as easily as I talk to my administrative assistant, yes, I'd use it," he explains. "But it's a lot of work...
What weakens the Reagan Administration's argument for economic pressure on Moscow is that the U.S. is going ahead with huge sales of grain that are bound to grow even larger as the Soviet Union faces its fourth bad harvest in a row. To help justify this boon for American farmers, the Reagan Administration notes that the grain is paid for in hard cash, thereby imposing real costs on the Soviets. The pipeline equipment, on the other hand, is bought on credit and then earns needed hard currency. To European ears, the argument sounds unconvincing. The U.S. grain still...
Apart from the lustrous leading players, each major-minor role is played in stellar fashion. Stephen Moore makes of Bertram's boon companion, Parolles, a pompous, endearing rogue and braggart, a mini-Falstaff. The countess's clown (Geoffrey Hutchings) is Lear's fool, in wit though not in pathos. And Robert Eddison, as adviser to the King, is an elegant paradox, a wise Polonius...
...spheres. Comments one senior cleric in Tehran: "Khomeini could turn out to be a bigger disaster for the Russians than he has been for the Americans. For three years, the Russians have had an uncontested field in Iran, but they have gained little more than ulcers from this supposed boon...
...remains to be seen whether evidence collected after the shooting by FBI agents from Hinckley's room at Washington's Park Central Hotel and at his parents' home in Evergreen, Colo., will prove more of a boon to the prosecution or the defense. Among the items agents found were a black plastic toy pistol and a Band-Aid box with a note inside reading "This plane has been hijacked!" There were also magazine and newspaper clips on the deaths of John Lennon and Elvis Presley and the shooting of former Alabama Governor George Wallace. Among Hinckley...