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...slowdown in computer sales has been most devastating for the semiconductor industry. When the market was strong, computer firms were all wildly optimistic in placing their microchip orders. Says Ken McKenzie, an associate director of the Dataquest research firm in Sunnyvale, Calif.: "Every company that produced a clone of the IBM Personal Computer expected to get 22% of the market, and there were 60 of those companies." When computer makers realized that their sales would not come close to expectations, they started canceling chip orders, leaving the semiconductor companies to sit on mountains of inventories. The glut of chips drove...
Starman is not so much a clone as that familiar subspecies, the Hollywood hybrid. If any scene worked in any earlier movie, it is used here, and it works here. Start with the collected works of Steven Spielberg (E. T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Sugarland Express), add the opposites-attract love story of every road movie from It Happened One Night to Romancing the Stone, and give it the glaze of cerulean romance. It is as if the United Nations had launched a videodisk containing snippets from every Hollywood genre, which had then been synthesized...
...Democrats insult us by saying we voted for President Reagan because of his personality and not his policies. The American people decisively rejected Jimmy Carter in 1980 and in 1984 even more overwhelmingly rejected his clone...
During Reagan's second term, Bush might carve out his own niche to establish himself as a presidential contender. It will be interesting to see if Bush continues to toe the conservative line as a Reagan clone, or if he fore sakes his apparent conversion for a more moderate agenda...
Voters in Massachusetts also have a sterling opportunity to strike a blow against the President by opposing his local clone. Ray Shamic, Shamic, who has cozied up to the President for lack of achievements and ideas of his own, is but one of dozens of far right can rights and welfare over the past four decades...