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...last Wednesday morning, the handsome, gray-haired Hollings rose on the Senate floor and addressed a nearly empty chamber. Baker, however, was pointedly in attendance. Hollings proposed deferring Reagan's hike in defense spending, thereby saving $19 billion in 1983, and eliminating cost-of-living increases in Social Security and other entitlement programs next year, saving another $24 billion. He also suggested saving $5 billion by scrapping a proposed 5% pay boost scheduled for this October for Federal Government workers. To raise more money, Hollings recommended canceling the 10% cut in personal income taxes due this July and slicing...
Bernardo Bertolucci has built his latest film on the shifting sands of time, space and mood. Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man slides in and out of reality, jumps from chamber drama to outsize farce, switches seasons with the speed of a flipped calendar. The plot is simple and scary enough: the son of a Parmesan factory owner (Ugo Tognazzi) agonizes through a search for his son, kidnaped by terrorists of the left. Primo Spaggiari's industry and instinct have made him a millionaire. But as time drags on, and Primo realizes that meeting the ransom demand will mean closing...
Meanwhile, De Lorean announced production cutbacks and layoffs of 1,000 workers, saying that the Thatcher government had "done everything to me except put me in a torture chamber in the bottom of one of those old castles." Still, the automaker insisted that his firm had plentiful assets. "We will be fine," he said. He added that the company now has offers from two large financial institutions in the U.S. that are willing to provide up to $200 million in new financing. "The tragedy is that as hard as we worked at it," said De Lorean, "we just didn...
What most alarms businessmen is that the prevalence of computer crime is unknown and probably unknowable. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce puts the annual loss from electronic theft at $100 million. But computer-crime specialists say that the true figure could be considerably higher. Much chicanery goes undetected, and even when culprits are caught, the victimized company often tries to hush up the scandal and absorb its losses rather than admit to having poor computer security. Says Charles Lecht, president of Advanced Computer Techniques Corp., which distributes computer equipment: "The crime you see is a fraction of what...
...influenced such men was, above all, the vestiges and souvenirs of African art, sluiced back into France as mere curiosities by the currents of imperial trade at the turn of the century. To compare such objects with their European responses, at this late date, is to enter a strange chamber of mirrors: we now tend to see African art in terms of cubism; one musical instrument in a glass case at the Met, a Zaire harp, is quite simply a cubist guitar plucked out of Picasso's paint of 1915 and materialized in three dimensions. Primitivism owes its prestige...