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...Force pilot, was in life what he was on stage: a lovable hippie environmentalist who sang from the heart and thanked God he was a country boy. And you can bet that whether Denver was cool or not, sales of those "Greatest Hits" will be plenty brisk this week...
Apple's solution? Take the brisk Newton software, put it in a notebook sized package with a full-sized keyboard, and market it to K-12 and collegiate education markets. Less technically demanding to assemble than most notebooks, the eMate retails for just under $800. In fact, the new Apple chair Steven P. Jobs decided recently to nix the spinning of Newton from Apple, bringing the subsidiary back into the fold-largely to develop new eMate products...
Members still complain of being shut out during busy times. Yet the slowing of AOL's once brisk cancellation rate and the acceleration of new arrivals seem to show that Case is at least one step ahead of the complaints. "These guys flirted with disaster," says Daniel Hart, a new-media strategist at Viacom. "Fortunately, they were smart enough to pull...
...most compelling actresses, is unfortunately stuck in a role that strongly recalls her earlier, more interesting work in "Frances" and "Music Box." One thing an audience should not feel in a drama this malignant is a niggling deja vu. Leigh, for once, drops the mannerisms, but her brisk performance is essentially a protracted walk-on. The husbands and other secondary characters barely register, serving a structural purpose in Jones' script that affords them little vitality...
...settlement promises to speed up what was happening anyway. Cigarette consumption in the U.S. has been declining for years, but on mostly unregulated foreign shores business is brisk. American cigarette sales internationally are rising 3% to 5% a year, and companies such as RJR are grabbing half their revenues there already. There's nothing to suggest that will change soon...