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While the industry has a few sizzling products like laptop computers, the overall sluggishness is hurting many businesses, ranging from supercomputers to software. Cray Research, the largest supercomputer maker, said early this month it will cut its work force about 7% because of slack demand. Mainframe manufacturer Unisys, which has reported operating losses of $79 million so far this year, plans to slash its payroll by 8,000 workers, or 9%. Wang, which lost $424 million during the past fiscal year, may be pushed into a merger. Former rising stars in personal computers, notably Commodore and Wyse Technology, are losing...
When Wooster tells the story about how he and his former fiancee, Florence Cray, try to steal his uncle Willoughby's manuscript and are foiled by his uncle and Edwin, the boy scout, the audience engages in non-stop laughter. Wooster's description of his uncle trying to make him confess is particularly hilarious. Wooster says: "It was most disgusting spectacle--this white-haired man who should have been thinking of the hereafter stood there lying like an actor...
...Assemble a handful of the best jazz, R.-and-B. and rock artists, and turn them loose in a weekly, hour-long musical showcase that has smooth-talking alto saxman David Sanborn as host. Result: the best damn music show on television. Look for Eric Clapton, Robert Cray and Taj Mahal to perform this season...
...fantasized -- cold fusion, anyone? -- has already appeared. The genius of technology has already saved us, as surely as the Ghost of Christmas Future saved Scrooge by rattling the miser's tight soul until it cracked. A satellite photograph is technology, and so are the differential equations spinning inside a Cray supercomputer. There is technology in the wobbly rising trace on a piece of graph paper. There is technology in a handful of numbers...
...yearlong probe has unearthed evidence of alleged wrongdoing by high-level Internal Revenue Service officials in the past five years and an attempted cover-up by the agency's image-conscious leaders. -- The cable-television industry faces fiercer competition. -- Computer genius Seymour Cray breaks away from the company he founded...