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...also the worst of times. For most of the companies that make those computers, that market has suddenly become a lethal place. Once successful companies such as IBM, Compaq, Dell and Apple are floundering; profits are plunging, margins squeezed. Last month one of the personal-computer industry's leading lights -- the pioneering Tandy Corp. -- became a prominent casualty. Faced with $52 million in losses in the past year and an even bloodier future, Tandy decided to abandon the PC business, which accounted for 10% of its sales last year. The company simply could not survive the intense price competition...
Nothing changes in North Bath. This is true not just of the town's continuing decay but also of the author's approach to character, which is that of commedia dell'arte. He assigns an easily recognizable peculiarity to each actor in his masque, who then exhibits his oddity whenever he is in view...
...whole food chain is on display. The roustabouts wriggle like worms; some of the featured artistes are dressed as tigers or lizards. The clowns could be from a Greenwich Village Halloween parade: Munchkins and bathing beauties, Road Warriors and samurai. This is a circus even Madonna could love -- commedia dell'arte as restaged by surrealists in a birthday-party mood...
Others hope that Clinton will deliver on his promise to help young people get ahead. Last fall Stuart O'Dell, 19, registered 503 voters out in front of the Wal-Mart store where he works. Because Clinton won Montgomery County by fewer than 3,200 votes, O'Dell likes to think he helped put Clinton over the top. In return, he expects the President to push through his plan to help students go to college in exchange for some form of community service, a promise that Clinton has already scaled back somewhat. "I've managed to save...
...manufacturers, who currently have about 15% of the Japanese PC market, quickly countered NEC's move with more slugging. IBM, together with the Japanese office-equipment maker Canon, announced the development of a notebook PC with a built-in printer that they would sell for $2,380. Fast-growing Dell Computer opened a subsidiary in Tokyo and began its famed direct sales to customers. In Dell's line...