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...Scientific Data Systems, a California-based mainframe maker. Now the copying-machine giant is just as anxious to get out; last week it announced that it would stop making basic computers over the next year or so, thus joining the list of corporate giants that have failed to dent the computer market dominated by IBM (others: General Electric, RCA). Xerox deducted from second-quarter earnings $84.4 million in estimated costs for discontinuing the computer business, reducing its net for the period to a mere $4.2 million, down more than 95% from a year earlier...
...there is a complication that no one can understand. Commemorative china plates issued in high-priced limited editions by the schlock art industry -displaying grackles by Boehm, farmhouses by Wyeth, Wedgwood heads of Commerce Secretary Frederick B. Dent, and so on-have become the back-up currency of the overheated U.S. economy. Another complication is that Athena, Apollo, that bisexual twit Hermes, and Zeus, 42 ft. tall but disguised, more or less, as a skirt-chasing municipal court judge, have settled in above a Greek restaurant on 18th Street, hoping to get some of the action...
...Vietnamese breadwinners who are legally entering the U.S. will scarcely make a dent in the job market. But the nation's unemployment problem is being aggravated by a far greater number of people who have slipped into the U.S. illegally, either by stealing across the borders or by overstaying their visas. Despite its economic and social difficulties, the U.S. remains the promised land-but only 400,000 people were able to immigrate legally last year. Many more successfully evaded the law, and they make up a monumental migraine for the understaffed and overburdened Immigration and Naturalization Service. In fiscal...
...Yankees made their only dent on Perry when Ron Blomberg and Craig Nettles singled to open the second. Chris Chambliss doubled them home and then scored on Thurman Munson's single...
Even scientists sympathetic with the institute's philosophy are highly skeptical that such techniques can make much of a dent in the world's enormous food needs. Nor do they all agree with the new alchemists' doomsday vision of the future of the Green Revolution. But, as the journal Science points out, there is no doubt that Todd and McLarney, in their idealistic quest, have shown that there may be a place alongside traditional agriculture "for the arks and other food-producing devices created in the new alchemists' crucibles...