Word: fallen
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...their data-processing chores to smaller, desktop systems. The shock waves bent many "big iron" manufacturers out of shape, including Prime Computer and Control Data Corp., which stopped making mainframes after heavy losses. Many companies like Wang Laboratories and Unisys have largely switched from hardware to software. The biggest fallen giant is Digital Equipment Corp., which last week reported a larger than expected quarterly loss of $66 million. Once the No. 2 computer maker after IBM, DEC has downsized in a so far unsuccessful effort to transform itself into a chip company...
...devoted his career to public service, is cut from the same mold as his old friend and mentor, Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill, the former House Speaker. At age 15 Moakley volunteered for the Navy and fought the Japanese in the South Pacific. The journeyman politician hasn't fallen behind: in September, he introduced the Community On-Line Act, which would provide grants to community buildings that hook up to the Internet...
QUOTE OF NOTE: "Since the end of the cold war, this country has not figured out where it's going and what its role is going to be. We've fallen into fighting among ourselves. It has made people angry...
...dismay of modern virtuecrats like Bill Bennett, we are defining character down too. But the Baby Boomers do it differently from the Generation X-ers. According to fallen Clinton guru Dick Morris, the Baby Boomers look at the President and say, "Heck, he didn't do anything I wouldn't do, and at least he's trying to make sense out of it all." But younger voters are more gimlet-eyed and take the view that character is as character does. "They look at the character debate as a cover for party politics as usual," says Gen-X pollster Jefrey...
...inexorable slide. Between 1992 and 1995 it fell about 3% nationwide, with some major papers taking even bigger hits. The Los Angeles Times, for example, lost 3.5% of its circulation last year, though it is up slightly this year. The percentage of adults reading daily newspapers has fallen from 78% in 1970 to 64% in 1995. The figure is even lower for young people, ages 16 to 24: only 52% of them read a paper daily. And this year alone, Websites in hundreds of cities across the country are taking aim at newspapers' core business, running listings and classifieds with...