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...with the Senate and the Baseball Hall of Fame, the Dow Jones industrial average is among the most exclusive clubs in the U.S. Its members read like a Who's Who of American industry. Stock prices for General Motors, IBM, Exxon, AT&T, U.S. Steel and 25 other blue-chip companies make up the widely watched Dow Jones average. Last week the editors of the Wall Street Journal, who choose the Dow's members, reshuffled the club's roster. Added to the list were McDonald's, the fast-food giant, and Philip Morris, maker of Marlboro. Dropped from the index...
...American strategic defense system probably had a lot to do with Moscow's readiness to return to the bargaining table and discuss the deep missile cuts it had hitherto rejected out of hand. Some in the Administration still harbor hopes that Star Wars might be the ultimate bargaining chip. Without some flexibility on SDI down the road, it could instead become the ultimate stumbling block, the issue that causes the Soviets to act on their hints that they might, once again, walk away from the bargaining table...
...over again we could make it half the size. Conceivably, we could go to a computer company and give them the design of the entire board (the main mechanism in the robot, about two square feet in size), and they could put it all on a single chip," says Jury...
...Steinberg created a little Saturday Afternoon Fever of his own, splitting the uprights on a 27-yd. chip shot into the wind to give Harvard (3-1, 2-0 Ivy) a nail-chomping 20-17 decision over Cornell (0-4, 0-2 Ivy) before more than 15,000 fans at Schoellkopf Field...
...frustration of the Big Red was perhaps best symbolized by quarterback Shawn Maguire, a mediocre passer who completed just 12 of 29 attempts with three interceptions. Maguire, who has 28 career interceptions and only four touchdown passes, faced a hostile hometown crowd that repeatedly chanted "We want Chip," second-string quarterback Chip Knapp...