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...chemical laser project that might one day be rocketed into space to zap Soviet nuclear missiles heading for the U.S. Reagan assured company engineers that the Strategic Defense Initiative, his space-based antimissile program, was "bounding forward" and that they were not working on a bargaining chip to be traded away in an arms deal...
...most crucial cost of the new environment may not be measurable in dollars. The past two years have seen a boom in alleged ethical lapses at even the bluest of blue-chip firms. New York's Sullivan & Cromwell found itself contesting no fewer than four accusations, notably one by an opposing firm that a partner bribed witnesses while representing the widow of Pharmaceutical Heir J. Seward Johnson in last year's estate battle. New York's Paul, Weiss discovered last year that a young associate, Michael David, had masterminded the "Yuppie Five" insider-trading scandal. Attorneys handling corporate mergers also...
...city to have a fine old theater or train station or office building that has been saved, spiffed up and put back to good, if not necessarily its original use -- a building that 20 years ago would have been pulled down without a second thought. Buying paperbacks and chocolate-chip cookies in what used to be a warehouse and watching stand-up comedians in what used to be a stable and living in what used to be a factory are now, happily, coast-to-coast cliches, not novelties. As ever, there are trade-offs: such transformations, especially as they become...
...Chips are showing up everywhere--microwaves, refrigerators," said Clark. "The more transistors you put on a chip, the more the computer...
...pixilated Jack (Ben Wright) no longer has his nudging mother (Barbara Bryne). Tough and fearless Ridinghood (Danielle Ferland) no longer has either her granny or her sexually seductive wolf (Robert Westenberg, who doubles brilliantly as the prince to Kim Crosby's klutzy, endearingly otherworldly Cinderella). The sweet little baker (Chip Zien) has lost his wife (Joanna Gleason, in the most beguiling performance of a superb cast). Even the witch (Bernadette Peters) has stormed off in rage at the collective dithering. But in the aftermath of havoc, households re-form, and life, better understood now, goes...