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Across the country, more and more Americans are logging on to computer information and service networks and discovering an ever enlarging cornucopia at their fingertips. Today anybody with a computer, a modem and a deep line of credit can buy an airline ticket to Cleveland, rent a Hertz car at the airport, book a room at the Sheraton, buy a novel from Waldenbooks, check the closing prices on Wall Street and purchase 100 shares of IBM--without ever getting up from the computer...
Actually, the magazine is more slap-dash than wham-bang, and the cornucopia has withered under the increasing onslaught of the bacteria of scholarly commitment...
...keep this fever pitch alive, we offer to you at a special discount rate the first What is to be Done? of the season, a wham-bang affair full of reviews and previews, a veritable cornucopia of entertainment ideas...
...Walters, a dish dealer with Eton, Ga.-based International Satellite Systems: "You own anything which comes down in your yard, and you have a right to use it." But others say they are willing to pay cable programmers a fee so that they can continue enjoying their backyard cornucopia...
Millions of individuals certainly have. Tempted by easy credit and a cornucopia of everything from cars to compact disks, consumers across the U.S. are becoming overextended. The Mortgage Bankers Association said last month that mortgage delinquencies reached 6.19% in the first quarter of 1985, the highest level since that group began keeping records in 1953. A separate report by the American Bankers Association showed additional signs of strain. The organization, which represents 13,000 large and small lenders, said 2.4% of all consumer installment loans were delinquent at the end of the first quarter. That represented a two-year high...