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...have two grown sons and a daughter), divide their time between a waterfront condominium in Boston and a summer house on Martha's Vineyard. At the Vineyard, a 24-ft. sailboat is Solow's primary passion. He plans to use part of his $340,000 Nobel Prize money to equip the boat with a new Genoa jib. "I've been just a poor academic up to now," he says, noting that the value of his only other major asset, his share of the M.I.T. pension fund, was reduced in last week's debacle. But some good may yet come...
...scheme to kidnap Philippine President Corazon Aquino. If actually carried out, an invasion could also have been bloody. Marcos, who was deposed in a People Power rebellion in February 1986, planned to buy $18 million worth of Stinger missiles, M-16 rifles, tanks, grenade launchers and enough ammunition to equip 10,000 soldiers for three months...
...study of suppressed, disseminated or marginalized messages within texts equip us to intervene against oppression and injustice in the world...
...tape hiss and static crackling common to ordinary tape and record players, the DAT's sound is so fine that it is bound to encourage home taping of prerecorded music. To prevent unauthorized duplication, record companies and industry organizations have joined ranks to demand that manufacturers of digital players equip them with special computer chips that block the copying of prerecorded music. The Reagan Administration is expected this week to introduce legislation to require such protection...
...rising toll of accidents has seriously hurt the company's U.S. image: sales in 1986 fell almost 20% from the previous year, to 59,797 autos. To prevent more accidents, Audi will equip the recalled cars with a shift-lock device, which forces the driver to press the brake pedal while shifting out of park. But many Audi owners maintain that the shift lock will not solve the problem. They want the company to buy back the accident-plagued autos or make major changes in the car's design...