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...certain to become ever more pervasive. If U.S. firms do not develop the most advanced systems, Japanese or South Korean or European companies are sure to do so. "American industry faces an extremely competitive situation," says Tandem President James Treybig. "AT&T is fighting to be in the forefront of technology, and there is some cost to staying in front." If Treybig is right, temporary setbacks are just the price of progress. But incidents like last week's are sure to influence the priorities of technology shoppers: reliability will be just as important as clever ads and fancy features...
Virginia has always been in the forefront of racial change. It was at Jamestown in 1619 that the first shipload of captive Africans later destined for slavery disembarked. It was at Appomattox in 1865 that the Confederacy surrendered. It was in Virginia in the 1950s that men who fancied themselves learned penned some of the last erudite-sounding but morally bankrupt justifications for segregation. And it will be in Richmond on Jan. 13 that there will be a black hand on the Bible when Lawrence Douglas Wilder is sworn in as Virginia's 73rd Governor. It is not only...
...other major objection is a moral one. Social conservatives object to policies they see as sanctifying homosexuality and further threatening the traditional family. John R. Quinn, the Archbishop of San Francisco, was in the forefront of the fight against the proposal on that city's ballot last week to provide certain domestic-partnershi p rights to municipal workers. He called the idea a "serious blow to our society's historic commitment to supporting marriage and family life...
...historic day for Massachusetts. Our state is once again in the forefront of efforts to extend civil rights protection...
...historic day for Massachusetts," said Gov. Dukakis. "Our state is once again in the forefront of efforts to extend civil rights protection to all," he said...