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...rate of investment in new plants and equipment is 8%, or four times as high as that in the U.S. and Europe. While the West is increasingly saddled with obsolete, energy-wasting factories, Japan is more quickly building up-to-date facilities that churn out sturdy products at the cheapest possible cost...
...cheapest hand-held machines, like Radio Shack's new TRS-80 PC2 ($280), are likely to be the most popular, despite drawbacks. Their tiny, one-line display screens are better for solving engineering problems or showing long strings of numbers than for serious writing or business programming, and their calculator-type keyboards are much harder to master than those of larger desktop computers. But they remind some users of the proverbial dog walking on its hind legs: what is surprising is not how well they work, but that they work at all. One U.S. insurance company is considering buying...
...spark to auto sales, most of Detroit's factories will not be in full gear until the American middle class can once again afford a new car. A break in interest rates would help, but many buyers would still be deterred by steep sticker prices. Even the cheapest Chevrolet costs $5,270. William Goff, 52, a Dearborn, Mich., telephone worker, was discouraged by what he saw last week at a GM showroom. Said he: "I can't believe that some of these cars cost more than I paid for my house." Many people are choosing to repair their...
These actions were controversial in themselves--350 students rallied in the spring of 1981 to protest the invasion of gay students' privacy. But The Review's editors have always saved their cheapest shots for Dartmouth's Black students, or "Negroes," as the paper calls them. And the cheapest shots of all came this past semester, when The Review printed...
...film in a new adventure series called Raiders of the Lost Ark. With the Star Wars films, Lucas had demonstrated that energy, invention and an appealing ingenuity could somehow balance themselves on Hollywood's bottom line. "George knows how to put the most on the screen for the cheapest price," Spielberg says. "He did more than anyone to help me make a movie on budget. While we were preparing Raiders he would tell me, 'You've got a $50 million imagination with a $10 million thought behind it.' " Together, the two young tycoons built plenty...