Word: clamoring
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...clamor for the new product reflects the continually growing power of the world's largest computer maker. Since August 1981, when it unveiled its first Personal Computer, or PC, IBM has claimed a pacesetting 28% of the market for machines costing between $1,000 and $5,000. The PC, intended mainly for office use, is costlier and more powerful than a home computer. Last year IBM sold 185,000 PCs. This year sales are expected to reach some 800,000. Runner-up Apple, once the leader in small machines, this year will have sales of about...
...increased national attention that the faculty have given to these matters in recent years, particularly the third has prepared HGSE to be a bit ahead of the national clamor Hopefully, we can help to shape the solutions not just decry the performance of schools...
What is more, there is impressive bipartisan agreement on the reasons for this course. The deficits may choke off the budding economic recovery, all right, but they may not do it-or at any rate, the damage may not be noticeable-until 1985. Meanwhile, there is no great public clamor for action. So with any luck, both tax increases and cuts in Government spending that might offend powerful groups of voters can be put off until after the elections. And if that turns out to be too late? Well...
...woman and a child at the Gare St.-Lazare acquires a strangeness that contradicts his intention of painting a peaceful urban scene. The grown woman stares at the painter, the little girl turns her back and gazes raptly through the iron bars into an industrial future, full of clamor and swift disjunction. For each phase of modernism there is a new Manet, and one may predict that the greatest effect of the Met show will be not on the New York public but on the artists once more...
...into programmed entertainment. The more extreme the event, the more TV air time it tends to get. James David Barber of Duke University believes that the networks will have more to say about who the presidential candidates will be next year than the political parties; hence all the witless clamor...