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...outside suppliers and is selling it through retail outlets like Sears and ComputerLand, as well as its own sales network. The company has begun offering discount prices and introducing new products at an accelerated rate. Last December IBM spent $250 million to acquire 12% of Intel, a leading computer-chip maker based in Santa Clara, Calif. In June IBM paid $228 million for a 15% stake in Rolm, also of Santa Clara, a major producer of telecommunications equipment. IBM plans to use Rolm to help create the so-called electronic office. Says Ulric Weil, a top computer analyst for Morgan...
Another challenge came from California's Silicon Valley, where the microprocessor, or computer-on-a-chip, was developed. The tiny devices packed thousands of circuits onto a postage-stamp-size silicon chip and gave rise to the microcomputer. Apple recognized the potentially vast appeal of personal computing, and its sales jumped from less than $1 million to $582 million between...
Virtually every President from Herbert Hoover to Ronald Reagan has conspired, if a bit reluctantly, to validate the legislative veto. From its first use, in a Government reorganization bill signed 51 years ago this week, it has been a bargaining chip: in exchange for a small concession of power, a President gets the legislation he wants...
...political atmosphere surrounding the question the Supreme Court was addressing. Ever since the court declared that women have a constitutional right to an abortion, no other social issue has so sparked public passions, pervaded state and national campaigns, and dominated the deliberations of Congress and legislatures. Laws designed to chip away at that right have been passed in at least 22 states, and antiabortion advocates have harbored hope that the high court might some day reverse itself. But in a decisive set of opinions handed down last week, filled with forceful phrases that seemed addressed to the controversy...
Store 24: Undoubtedly summer students will spend a mint in this joint as students do during the winter. When you got to have Entenmann's chocolate chip cookies, you got to have them and Store 24 can satiate basic "munchies" with a decent selection of packaged junk food. The 24 does the trick but only barely. A tip: don't eat the meatless meat sandwiches in the window...