Word: chip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TENTH MAN (CBS, Dec. 4, 9 p.m. EST). Anthony Hopkins and Derek Jacobi lead a blue-chip British cast in Graham Greene's story about a French lawyer, imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, who bargains to save his skin...
...Captain Darrin Maccoux and sophomore Brendan O'Sullivan will chip in at forward, and point guard James Blackwell should also help Dartmouth's attack. Guard John Mackay returns to the team after taking two years off to perform missionary work...
When Mike and Kitty came calling at Gracie Mansion one night a week before the primary, Koch served his favorite chocolate-chip cookies -- the same ones, he told them, that he had pressed on Mother Teresa. Dukakis talked with the mayor for 40 minutes. Koch was polite but distant. He asked about Jackson, and Dukakis responded with the usual boiler plate about disagreeing with Jackson on some issues but treating him with respect. Koch was not pleased. Only a week earlier Koch had, with his grating candor, said any Jew would be "crazy" to vote for Jackson. Just before...
...their own show -- and run it better than some sprawling conglomerate that has grown inattentive or slothlike in responding to the needs of its far-flung divisions. Some 1,100 units of U.S. companies have been acquired by their managers since 1982, and it is a blue-chip list: the Montgomery Ward department-store chain, bought by its executives from Mobil; the former ITT subsidiary that makes Scott lawn products; the onetime Unisys unit that produces Nu-kote ribbons for typewriters and computer printers. "Management buyouts create powerful incentives for entrepreneurship, risk taking and long-term planning," says Martin Dubilier...
...biggest surprise is the computer's built-in disk drive. Rather than rely on standard floppy disks, Next comes equipped with an erasable magneto-laser disk built by Canon and controlled by a proprietary chip. The 5 1/4-in. disk, which will be the first of its kind to come to market in the U.S., slips in and out of the computer like a floppy, but holds 256 megabytes -- more data than 300 IBM PC or Macintosh disks. As if to underscore the massive storage capacity this represents, Next's disk comes loaded with software programs, operating instructions and four...