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...barrier to a brisker turnaround remains the federal budget deficit, which the board expects will reach an unprecedented $205 billion in the current fiscal year. The members were chagrined, and even a little shaken, by the failure of Congress and the White House to agree on a new budget last month and offered some deficit-cutting proposals of their...
...misplaced decimal points in certain computations, a flaw quickly corrected. But Opel felt no need to be defensive. Said he: "We added real value to that machine, and we will add more as we go along. The performance characteristics are quite unique." With PCs now selling at a brisker rate than ever, the marketplace apparently agreed that IBM had built the Cadillac of the 1982 class...
...night was enthusiastic but unmemorable. The customary quota of celebrities was not met, although Ryan O'Neal and Farrah Fawcett had ringside seats and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was blocking someone's view near by. The impression, at least, was that the action in the casino had been brisker at the Ali-Holmes and Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns fights, and the high rollers' wardrobes have certainly been brighter. Holmes was an early 8-5 favorite, but the odds shortened to 7-5 with a surge of late Cooney bets...
...Thanksgiving. Crowds jammed New York's Fifth Avenue, but there were more window-shoppers and browsers than buyers. Said one shopper at Lord & Taylor in Manhattan: "The crowds come in, but they don't purchase anything. This is a day for tourists in New York." Traffic was brisker and customers seemed to be less tight-fisted up the street at Saks, where high-priced gourmet foods and designer clothing were selling smartly...
...nice folks at the Harvard ticket office say if you intend on seeing either game this weekend, get there early [by 7:00 p.m.], but do come. Advance ticket sales are brisker than for any game in memory, but bring your ticket book and walk...