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Students seem to have better luck with projects done for other functions. Aron L. Silverstone '87, treasurer of the User's Group says he uses his computer to balance his checkbook...
...THINK ABOUT AT&T'S QUALITY." AT&T says its "calls sound loud and clear-as close as next door." Sesser, however, reported that both his survey of long distance services and Consumers Checkbook, a Washington-based consumer group, found SBS Skyline to have the highest voice quality of all carriers. AT&T was second best. The ad says "only AT&T lets you call from anywhere to anywhere," but Sesser said that now virtually all long distance companies can reach all locations in the United States, and some reach an increasing number of foreign countries...
...expectations. Professionals use the machines to catch up with work at home, and many families enjoy playing computer games. But the range of other uses for computers in the home is still limited. Most consumers seem to think that a pencil remains the tool of choice for balancing the checkbook and updating the grocery list. Home-computer sales, which surged from 390,000 machines in 1981 to 4.8 million in 1983, declined by 6%, to 4.5 million, last year. Says John Pope of IBM's personal-computer unit: "Our expectations were overly optimistic. The home market did not expand...
Anyone who has so much as balanced a checkbook could have told the President that when he cut taxes but dramatically increased military spending he was paying the way for fiscal disaster. Nevertheless, he foolishly clung to the pipedreams of the supply sides who prophesied that cutting taxes would somehow magically increase government revenue. One discredited theory and $200 billion worth of red ink later, it is the less privileged who are paying for the President's foolhardy mistakes...
...Pont wealth stems from the chemical company that is the state's largest employer. Initially, Elise du Pont was so eager to dispel the notion that she was riding on her husband's coattails and checkbook that her campaign billboards advertised her only as "Elise." When voters failed to respond, campaign strategists added her surname. Even though her husband has studiously stayed away from the campaign, her popularity is inexorably linked to his. Pierre du Pont, completing his second term, has an approval rating of some 90%. "Pete du Pont has turned the state around," says Rotarian John...