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...agreement between the manufacturers and the recording industry states that every DAT recorder will contain a computer chip that digitally encodes a signal on the tape when the first copy is made. This inaudible code will prevent a machine from making subsequent copies of that tape. That way, consumers can make a copy of a CD to play in their cars or portable machines, but that copy cannot be used to mass-produce more tapes to give or sell to other people...
...those maneuvers--like the Iran-Contra deal--which looks infallible on paper. The abduction of Sheik Abdul Karem Obeid could have proved a profitable and much needed bargaining chip for the release of Israeli soldiers taken captive by Hezbollah terrorists...
...year, down from the Reagan Administration's five-month-old projection of 3.5%. The White House forecasters, looking through the rose-colored glasses favored by most Administration economists, calculate a growth rate of 2.6% for 1990, but a consensus of 52 economists surveyed by the Blue Chip Economic Indicators holds that the economy will grow at a rate of less than 1.5% during the final half of the year and at about the same sluggish pace in 1990. Says Norman Robertson, chief economist at Pittsburgh's Mellon Bank: "The slowdown is now a reality. It has arrived...
CREDIT: Forecasts by Blue Chip Economic Indicators...
...advantages to Holworthy as well. Most of my friends lived there. Jason from Friday the 13th did not. It was close to the Science Center--a building with a name that still conjures up visions of pain and death for me, but is nonetheless home to the greatest chocolate-chip cookies in the Square. Best of all, Holworthy was far from the Harvard Union--a bizarre place where students actually wait in line for crispitos and something called venerable vegetables...