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...machines offered such innovations as ultradense clusters of circuit boards cooled by liquid nitrogen, but lacked adequate software. Control Data lost about $200 million on supercomputers during the past three years, and Chairman Robert Price thinks the venture would have consumed plenty more. Said he: "Let's put it this way: there are less risky ways to bet $200 million in the computer industry...
...participants appeared more confident about America's international position than its domestic challenges. "I was impressed by the seriousness of our domestic problems," said James Harvey, chairman of Transamerica Corp. "But at least we are squarely facing them. In business, half the solution is simply knowing the problem...
...prime reason for the nervousness is that no one is sure just how much property the Government will be taking over. Stuart McFarland, chairman of Virginia-based Skyline Financial Services, which manages 8,000 repossessed properties in 21 states for the Government, estimates that the real estate might total $200 billion or more. The load of S & L properties is compounded by a growing stock of real estate that other Government agencies have taken over in recent years because of loan defaults. The Farmers Home Administration will have to dispose of 1.3 million acres of farmland, a territory roughly...
...bank of hardware can now be performed by a single plug-in board. In just the past year the cost of an entry-level 3-D computer has fallen by nearly 70%, to less than $16,000. Within the next five to eight years, predicts Jim Clark, chairman of Silicon Graphics, the leading manufacturer of 3-D workstations, "we'll see the kind of images Tin Toy represents on an ordinary personal computer...
...weapons plant, local political scandals and resentment over unpopular tax and health-care reforms don't fully explain the public disenchantment that first showed up earlier this year in municipal elections. "I believe there is a kind of gambler's attitude in parts of the electorate," says Otto Lambsdorff, chairman of the centrist Free Democratic Party. "They are saying that everything is so comfortable, they can try something different." A related reason, however, may be growing boredom with Kohl's stolid style...