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...Florida a man bills his ophthalmologist $90 for keeping him waiting an hour. In California a woman hires somebody to do her shopping for her -- out of a catalog. Twenty bucks pays someone to pick up the dry cleaning, $250 to cater dinner for four, $1,500 will buy a fax machine for the car. "Time," concludes pollster Louis Harris, who has charted America's loss of it, "may have become the most precious commodity in the land...
...this continues, time could end up being to the '90s what money was to the '80s. In fact, for the callow yuppies of Wall Street, with their abundant salaries and meager freedom, leisure time is the one thing they find hard to buy. Their lives are so busy that merely to give someone the time of day seems an act of charity. They order gourmet takeout because microwave dinners have become just too much trouble. Canary sales are up (low-maintenance pets); Beaujolais nouveau is booming (a wine one needn't wait for). "I gave up pressure for Lent," says...
...Bush Administration, in asking for safeguards in the deal, is not trying to crush Japan's aerospace ambitions or force Tokyo to buy wholly U.S.-made planes off the shelf. Rather the struggle over the FSX appears to mark the start of a new get-tough era in U.S. relations with its trading partners. Armed with the Super 301 weapon provided by Congress, the White House in coming months could bring actions against Japan if the U.S. determines that Tokyo has failed to open its markets for everything from weather satellites to financial services. Moreover, the Administration now considers...
...that he financed some of his activities from the family fund, then reimbursed himself by dipping into the contra donations. North's credibility was further damaged by former NSC administrator Mary Dix, who testified that several times in 1984 and 1985 North was so hard up for money to buy lunch and gasoline that he railed at secretaries who claimed that the agency's petty-cash fund was too low to reimburse his out-of-pocket expenses. He stopped badgering, Dix said, in mid-1985 -- about the time his safe held thousands of dollars for the Iran-contra "enterprise...
...will not have the workstation market all to itself. Last week a major competitor, Hewlett-Packard, said it had reached an agreement to buy workstation pioneer Apollo for $476 million. The merger will give Hewlett- Packard more than 30% of the workstation market, supplanting Sun (28%) as the top manufacturer. But the workstation market is expected to grow some 44% this year, to nearly $6 billion, leaving plenty of room for expansion. Says William Joy, Sun's vice president of research and development: "The action is on the desktop. That's where most of the people...