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...Baltimore home of Critic Hugh Kenner. There, Kenner introduced him to a vintage Heathkit/ Zenith model Z-89 computer. The next month Buckley purchased his first system: a secondhand Z-89 with a Diablo printer and a copy of the pioneering Pie word processing program. Buckley took the gear along on his annual winter pilgrimage to Switzerland where, guided by 16 pages of instructions prepared by Kenner, he turned out in only five weeks his 20th book, Overdrive (Doubleday...
...will let the two countries drop their tariffs over a seven-year period. Increased competition could eventually make businesses stronger by encouraging them to be more efficient and innovative. In addition, a freer exchange of products and ideas with the rest of Europe will help Spain and Portugal gear up their lagging economies for the 21st century. Said Leal: "For four centuries we have looked at our problems in a very inward way, and now we will be forced to look outward...
...physical owner." Moreover, they were in East Germany, whose Communist government refused to surrender them to America. Their ownership had passed to Feininger's wife Julia on his death, and after she died in 1970 an executor of the Feininger estate, Art Lawyer Ralph F. Colin, went into high gear. It took him 14 more years of negotiation, a lawsuit against Klumpp and another against the government of East Germany to winkle out the missing paintings and get them to New York City. They were first exhibited at the Acquavella Galleries in Manhattan last fall. Now they can be seen...
...bulls were really running last week. From consumers to financiers, nearly everyone was celebrating the belief that the economy is kicking into high gear. Thanks to low inflation, the boom machine could hum smoothly for years. Carl Icahn, TWA's new chairman and top stockholder, struggles with a strike and mounting losses. The World Bank's new lender in chief...
...Paul Volcker and his counterparts in other countries to let interest rates decline. That development sparked a long-running bull market on stock exchanges from Wall Street to Tokyo. And when oil prices went into a steep decline over the past three months, the boom machine shifted into high gear. Says James Sweeney, director of the Center for Economic Policy Research at Stanford University: "We see a significant number of happy events...