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...although the company, Apple, did not exist seven years ago. Now, Apple just closed its best year in business, racking up sales of $583 million. The company stock has a market value of $1.7 billion. Jobs, as founder of Apple, chairman of the board, media figurehead and all-purpose dynamo, owns about 7 million shares of that stock. His personal worth is on the balmy side of $210 million. But past the money, and the hype, and the fairy-tale success, Jobs has been the prime advanceman for the computer revolution. With his smooth sales pitch and a blind faith...
Gary Coleman and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The tiny dynamo of TV comedy and the towering inferno of the N.B.A. It was bound to happen. And so it does, early next month when the pair (mean height: 5 ft. 7 in.) team up, and down, for that milestone of broadcasting, the 100th episode of Coleman's NBC series, Diff'rent Strokes. Abdul-Jabbar, 35, guest-stars as a rigid substitute teacher against whom Coleman, 14, and the other students rebel. The plot, unfortunately, does not thicken...
...eyes of right-wing critics, the eight or so aides who meet almost every day in the White House have diverted the President from his ideological principles and led him down the primrose path of moderation and compromise. To others, the ad hoc group is the dynamo behind Ronald Reagan's legislative successes and the key to the biggest challenge of his presidency, the proposed 1982 tax increase. "It is the driving force in the White House today," says a top Reagan loyalist. "It sets the agenda for what we're doing and where we're going...
...real dynamo on the field." Coach Edie MacAusland said. "I only wish I had I I Sara LeBlonds on the field...
...real dynamo on the field," field hockey coach Edie MacAusland says. "She plays with desire and spirit. I only wish I had 11 Sara LeBlonds out there on the field...