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...exclusions." He has already shown that he can seek accommodation with the city's conservative business elite by placing many corporate leaders on his transition team. "When the dust settles, Chicago's standing will not be impaired," promises James O'Connor, chairman of Commonwealth Edison and co-chairman of the transition group...
Electricity use in Michigan, for example, has dropped during the past three years as the auto industry has fallen on hard times. Critics now question the necessity of two reactors being built in Midland by Consumers Power and Detroit Edison's Fermi 2 plant nearing completion in Monroe County. Fermi 1, the first plant to sprout from Company Chairman Walker Cisler's vision, was problem plagued from its conception in the 1950s. It was shut down in 1972 after running only 300 days in six years...
...raise chickens or when it is the right time in the moon to plant onion sets or something else equally important. . . if someone would invent a contraption to shut out the other nine when a person wanted to use the tenth he would be richer and more famous than Edison. But he'd be forever unpopular with us farmers for we'd never know each other's business...
This is the year to pity poor music lovers. Just when they thought they had assembled the best audio system budgets could buy, along comes a technological development that may render their expensive turntables and library of LPs as out of date as Edison's first talking machine. This month two major manufacturers, Sony and Magnavox, are introducing a limited number of digital record players in audio and department stores across the U.S. The machines, which retail for $800 to $1,000, use a laser beam instead of a conventional tone arm and stylus to play compact discs...
Until digital, record technology had not changed much in principle since the Edison cylinder. On conventional LPs, called analog recordings, images of sound waves picked up by a microphone are traced into vinyl grooves; a kind of aural photograph is "developed" when a stylus retraces the grooves and re-creates the sonic vibrations. Digital recordings are akin to the computer-assisted cameras used in space, which translate images into a series of binary numbers that are later reassembled into pictures back on earth. In digital recording a computer takes 44,000 impressions of sound per sec. and assigns each...