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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rival scientists invade the lab, and tiny Tuck is injected into the body of Jack Putter (Martin Short), a wimpy Safeway clerk. Before Tuck's oxygen supply runs out -- at 9 tomorrow morning -- Jack must find the courage and smarts to escape from a speeding truck, undergo a frightening face-lifting, steal a vital microchip, fight off a couple of midget dastards and win the confidence of Tuck's skeptical girlfriend (Meg Ryan). If Tuck has anything to do with it, Jack will find all the resources he needs right inside him. And his arrogant little friend, who is fond...
Through the winter and spring, the reformers had been balked by the doctrinaire Marxists, who were making a comeback after seven years of retreat in the face of Deng's reforms. The doctrinaire faction -- also known as conservatives and, even more confusingly, leftists -- blamed the reformers for last December's huge pro-democracy student demonstrations and launched a major campaign against "bourgeois liberalization." They vigorously attacked many of Deng's post-Mao changes, including greater artistic and press freedom and most moves toward capitalist-style economic reforms...
...would be in American factories by 1990; today only 25,000 are installed, roughly twice as many as exist in West Germany, which has a much smaller industrial base. The U.S. lags far behind Japan, where 118,800 robots are in use. Along with sluggish domestic demand, U.S. manufacturers face a shrinking share of the roughly $1.9 billion global robotics market. Reason: Japanese competitors have gained a strong edge in the field and appear likely to continue their domination. Says Michael Cronin, president of Automatix, a Massachusetts-based robotmaker that lost $7.8 million last year: "It's a bloodbath...
Tonight Washington and Denver will face off at 9 p.m. (all Arena games are only on ESPN). But if you're trying to decide between the game and the Business Report on Channel 44, pick the report. Why? Because it's juts as exciting, and far more interesting...
...policy are largely ignored and its members are not included in any meaningful decisions. And because the University does not entrust the undergraduate government with any responsibility other than deciding how much money to spend on its own furniture, students do not take seriously their own representatives. In the face of disregard on one side and apathy on the other, the Council has become an unwieldy, bureaucratized morass filled with publicity hounds in search of filler for their resumes...