Word: fewness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even in this dreary phase, the computer industry has a few bright lights. The most dependable star right now is Houston-based Compaq, which makes IBM- compatible desktop and portable machines. Started less than eight years ago, Compaq is expected to reach sales of $3 billion in 1989. Last week...
Baker, as author Phyllis Rose observes in this elegant, judicious biography, actually "had little subtlety and less angst." Still, as the evolution from cabaret "jungle bunny" to boulevard nobility suggests, she was a woman of Cleopatra-like variety and contradiction. Baker was cheerfully promiscuous, yet loyal in a way to...
Moving a house is a time-consuming affair. The morning that Willie Anderson's home is delivered begins with workers hoisting the house's concrete steps onto a pickup truck while Anderson and her children pile broken bricks and stack cut wood. Clearance for the move requires approval from a...
As the line snakes out of Pearl, the row of cars picks up speed, and the cab's chimney spouts black smoke that swirls around the head of Steve Harris, who is kneeling on the house's gray-green roof and raising low-hanging telephone wires. The town is left...
Granted, these worrisome conclusions rest on totally unscientific research. A few recent mentions prompted an inspection of my ego folder of clippings going back several years. Some of the contents were unsettling. Having no reason to believe that I was being singled out for special hazing, I decided that purveyors...