Word: compacter
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...problem stems from a law Congress passed in 1980 under pressure from the states that currently receive low-level waste--South Carolina, Nevada, and Washington. The law allows states that join a regional waste disposal compact to bar non-member states from storing waste within their borders...
...fact that Commonwealth voters could veto a disposal site in Massachusetts has outraged negotiators from other states in the compact, says Judy A. Shope, a specialist on radioactive waste for the League of Women Voters. Shope explains that compact members feel the law enables Massachusetts to shirk its responsibilities under the pact...
...highest royalty rate in the business." That translates into approximately $2 for each of the more than 18 million albums sold in the U.S. Now you have some idea of what Jackson is using for pocket money these days. This does not, of course, count revenues from compact discs or the sale of some 350,000 copies of a $29.95 videotape called Making Michael Jackson's Thriller. Or continued royalties from the sale of old albums. Or the sales of Thriller abroad. Or the impending arrival of novelties like the Michael Jackson doll, due to appear in stores...
...sound by physical means, the way a piano does when its hammers strike the strings, the synthesizer generates tones electronically. Older analog models employed a battery of oscillators, filters and amplifiers, both to produce and to alter the color of sound. Their newer digital cousins are to analogs what compact disc record players are to the ordinary turntable; they represent each point on the sonic spectrum with a series of numbers programmed into the machine. Synthesizers can go beyond standard intervals (the white and black keys of a piano) to register quarter tones and microtones. They can repeat complicated riffs...
Says William Cranz, a Huntington Station, N.Y., computer dealer: "Mac is light-years ahead of the IBM PC." Mac has some of the hallmarks that made the Apple II such a hit. The engineering is compact and elegant, and the machine is perhaps the first moderately priced computer that is easy to use. But Mac has some drawbacks. It is difficult to expand, has a small memory and does not have a color monitor. Apple will have a more powerful version out later in the year, but color is far in Mac's future. And although...