Word: comming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official has some unusual qualifications for the field. Ben Jamil, the com pany president, was indicted in 1966 for wiretapping, though the indictment was dis missed after the trial ended in a hung jury...
...times, Connie Washam, 32, has nearly given up on her husband Gary, marketing director for a San Diego com puter graphics firm. "We don't plan on him for dinner," she says. "We don't plan on him for anything. He's kind of a drop-in guest." Says Gary in his defense: "I'm in a double bind. The computer gives me immediate rewards. I get positive strokes every time I solve a problem. On the other hand, I enjoy being with my family. But if you spend too much time with them, you lose...
Metropolitan Police Assistant Com missioner John Bellow last week faced the delicate task of determining where security had failed and where improve ments could be made. Dellow's dilemma: the royal family dislikes security precautions so much and is so well regarded that measures for its safekeeping have become too lax. Ronald Reagan, by contrast, is so well guarded that his protection became a major irritant between U.S. and British security officials last month when the President stayed at Windsor Castle. Still, the Queen may need more security than she thinks. Only 13 months before her un scheduled bedside...
Historians and political scientists with long memories contend that Congress has often been ponderous, frustratingly slow and unharnessable. Shortly after Franklin Roosevelt's sensational, Depression-generated 100 days, a Democratic-controlled Congress soon reverted to its traditional friction with the White House, leading F.D.R. to com plain about its mulishness...
Atari, which marketed a home version of Pac-Man only last month, just helped Warner Com, its parent company, post a record 57% increase in first-quarter profits. In 1982, according to San Francisco Securities Analyst Ted James, Atari, the world's largest supplier of home-video consoles and cartridges, should sell around $400 million worth of coin-operated video games and some $1.3 billion worth of the home-video consoles and cartridges. This represents a revenue for Warner almost six times that of their record business, five times that of the film division and about 47 times that...