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...sound is as pure and compelling as a siren song, and consumers seem powerless to resist. They have been snapping up compact disk players, which reproduce music with near perfection, at a rate that is overwhelming both retailers and manufacturers. Annual sales of the newest high-tech wonder, which came on the U.S. market in 1983, should reach 1 million next year. That will make the CD player the fastest-selling machine in home-electronics history. The videocassette recorder took six years (from 1975 to 1981) to reach the same milestone. "We're selling every single...
...decision upheld the so-called New England Compact, which allows mergers across state lines by banks in the region. With the court's verdict, Bank of Boston (1984 assets: $22.1 billion), New England's No. 1 lender, will now acquire Colonial Bancorp of Waterbury, Conn. (assets $1.5 billion), and RIHT Financial Corp. (assets $2.3 billion) of Providence for about $200 million. Said a disappointed Hans Angermueller, vice chairman of Citicorp (assets $150.1 billion), which led the legal fight against the regional pact: "Banking is the only industry that still enjoys local protection...
...agrees to their terms: a total overseas troop withdrawal, an annual donation of $50 billion for Third World projects and the release of all black and Hispanic prisoners. It sounds like the stuff of spy thrillers. But, warns Theodore Taylor, a former Princeton University physicist who once designed compact nuclear weapons and now is a Washington consultant, the acquisition of plutonium bombs small enough to be smuggled into the U.S. is "a real threat...
...than 1.9 billion miles long and almost a billion miles wide -- impressive by earthly standards but diminutive on a galactic scale and in relation to the tremendous amount of energy it emits. Concludes Astronomer Donald Backer of the University of California, Berkeley: "What we observe is a very bright, compact object that appears to be rather small by stellar dimensions. Yet it's radiating a lot of luminosity. There are many stellar objects in the galaxy that radiate this amount of energy, but this one is peculiar. None of the others are as compact or as steady." In other words...
Twenty years ago, Andretti finished third, Johncock fifth and Al Unser ninth in their first Indy, when a bumper haul of eleven rookies made the field of 33 and five finished in the top ten. "An eternity ago," says Andretti, 45, a compact man with a Roman bearing. "It doesn't seem that long" to Unser, 45, who at first professed to understand Johncock's decision. "No, that's not fair," he amended. "I don't understand it. I haven't done it." This is the usual difficulty in discussing anything about auto racing. No one who hasn't done...