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Such concerns could prove irrelevant, since consumer resistance to DAT may well render it DOA. The machines are dear: $950 for Sony's model, vs. $150 for a cheap CD player. But DAT's biggest flaw is that it may quickly become obsolete. Japanese companies are already working on a recordable CD, and the Dutch electronics firm Philips has developed a new format called digital compact cassette. DCC machines, which unlike DAT recorders can play traditional as well as digital tapes, could be available as early as next year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ELECTRONICS: Will DAT Be a Dud? | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

...Crimson was subsequently ranked seventh in the nation in the first spring season poll, its highest ranking in 29 years. Harvard captured the EITA schedule without a flaw and became the first Eastern team to get an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament...

Author: By Michael Stankiewicz, | Title: Serve and Volley | 5/23/1990 | See Source »

This production of A Midsummer Night's Dream's greatest flaw, however, is that it sometimes overdoes its interpretative staging. The comic-book touches, such as the "zap" that fairies cry after magic mutterings, are almost too cute. The result is funny but cheap...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: A Mid-afternoon Dream at Adams | 5/4/1990 | See Source »

...riding the Senate Bus for a few hours. For example, she describes the way most of the women are dressed as "fashionable." Most people I know, whether they attend single-sex or co-ed colleges, try to look "fashionable." Yet Jeschke says this as if it were a character flaw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Unfairly Stereotyped | 3/12/1990 | See Source »

...What is the fatal flaw of Marxism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yugoslavia's MILOVAN DJILAS: Why Perestroika Cannot Succeed | 2/19/1990 | See Source »

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