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After two years of sputtering sales, U.S. manufacturers of semiconductor chips, which form the core of computers and all other electronic products, are coming on strong once again. Chip orders reached $830 million in July, up 70% from a year ago. The phenomenal demand for personal computers has powered much of the semiconductor surge, but big orders are also coming from the manufacturers that use chips in telecommunications products, photocopiers, autos and military equipment like missile-control panels. Says Gary Arnold, National Semiconductor's chief financial officer: "We're seeing the strongest and broadest uptick in the history...
...Blue Chip...
...looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form. She wears a blue-and-white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. Except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted), Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meiji print...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher indicated as much in a letter last February to Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. The letter did not explicitly concede sovereignty, which London wants to hold as a bargaining chip, but it did, in the words of a Western diplomat, send the Chinese "a very broad signal." As the diplomat loosely paraphrased it, the letter said: "We know you will gain sovereignty, but before we put things down in black and white let's see what you have in mind for administering Hong Kong...
...imperiled is Chicago's enduring sense of superiority over Los Angeles. Asserts Joseph Harmon, president of Chicago's convention and tourism bureau: "The bottom line is people know they can come here and still make a buck." Sniffed Chicago Sun-Times Columnist Mike Royko: "So, a buffalo chip is bigger than a diamond." But at least one Chicagoan has already adapted to reality. Three years ago Tricia Fox opened the Second City Day School. Now she has seven and calls them the Fox Day Schools. "I didn't want to change the name every time the city...