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...compared with 240,000 in 1984 and just 35,000 in 1983. Says Alan Perper, marketing director for the Warner Brothers, Elektra and Atlantic record labels: "The drop in prices has made it a mass-market product faster than anyone expected." Industry analysts expect prices for simple players to dip as low as $150 by Christmas and $100 next year...
...exact. They have come to retrieve a score of their comrades, stranded during an earlier expedition, who have reposed in giant sea pods off the Gulf Coast and are now being rejuvenated in the waters of that miracle swimming pool where the old guys take a furtive daily dip. And lo! these senior citizens are of a sudden healthy, frisky and horny. Cancers dissolve, romance blooms anew; fox-trotting arthritics turn into disco dervishes. Wouldn't it be wonderful if decay and death were so easily washed away...
Their debut album, Ratilesnake, has crawled into a dark hole in the charts, but it contains understated pop that, while not obviously challenging doesn't dip into the insultingly trivial Rattlesnake suffers from overly wimpy production with Barry Manilow string backups and too little bass or drum support one almost thinks that 'Producer Paul Hardiman' is a pseudonym for James Taylor...
...best of the new business games are three fast-paced simulation programs that re-create the stock, real estate and commodities markets: Blue Chip Software's Millionaire, Baron and Tycoon. For $60 each, these startlingly realistic games let players dip their feet into the volatile market for stock options or pork-belly futures--without having to take a bath...
TIME's economists viewed last week's dip in the dollar as a healthy development, but said that a sharp plunge could be dangerous. Admitted Greenspan: "The dollar has long been a great worry of mine." If foreigners lost confidence in the dollar, they might start pulling large sums of money out of American investments. That could lead to a run-up in U.S. interest rates and slower growth than the economists now predict...