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...Early Monday morning we had to change the main disk for the mailbox message itself because instead of playing the recording for 15 people, the system was forced to accommodate 150," Kinchla said. "Now we're trying to work out some incompatibility problems with the new disk...
...firms that are racing to Eastern Europe could take a lesson from the patience shown by Minneapolis-based Control Data, which since 1973 has built disk drives and other computer products in Romania (pop. 23 million). The joint venture with a Romanian company, which took five years to turn a profit, exports half its output to the West. "The biggest problem was the lack of the business environment that we in the West are used to," recalls Helmut Koller, Control Data's marketing director for Eastern Europe. "We basically had to create our own suppliers...
...question becomes, "What goes?" In general, this question should be answered not by governments but by artists, disk jockeys, producers, theater owners and media executives. There are no simple formulas for what is permissible. And there is always a serious danger that high-quality, progressive art will be stifled for the sake of community standards. But much commercial trash, crassly produced to exploit the vulnerable minds of young people, is easy to identify...
...they polluted it? Many people think so. The moral right wing surely does, and it has friends in powerful places. Senator Jesse Helms fights to force artists to forswear any unwholesome intentions before receiving Government support. Alfred Sikes, the new chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, leans on radio disk jockeys to clean up their acts. No less than the FBI sends a warning letter to a rap group. Susan Baker (wife of the Secretary of State) and Tipper Gore (wife of the Tennessee Senator), founders of the Parents' Music Resource Center, lobby for proscriptive labeling of certain albums. John...
WHEELS. Modern fibers are also making a difference in bicycle wheels, which traditionally feature dozens of thin metal spokes within a pliable rim. While multispoked wheels minimize wind resistance, they are easily bent out of shape. In the mid-'80s, solid "disk" wheels made of Kevlar improved matters but were somewhat hard to control in crosswinds. A solution came early this year from Specialized Bicycle Components of Morgan Hill, Calif.: a three-spoke wheel developed with Du Pont. Specialized's wheel, a composite of carbon fiber, epoxy resin, Kevlar and aluminum, has an air-foil shape, and was designed with...