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Apple faces several crises. First, its operating software is very old. Most customers believe that Microsoft's Windows 95, available since last August, now matches the general capabilities of Apple's System 7.5. The last major overhaul of the Macintosh operating system--System 7.0, which laid the groundwork for the current version--was late when it was delivered more than five years ago and even then just barely met expectations. The next major overhaul of the Macintosh system, code-named Copland, is due later this year. But many industry experts aren't sure if Apple will be able to deliver...
...Clinton is now trying to appear flexible." Other Republicans echoed Gingrich's sentiments. "We're not going to have a deal," Senate Budget leader Pete Domenici said late Thursday. Said Bob Dole: "The President has already decided the talks are ended, and he's started to lay the groundwork . . . for his re-election...
...hope these grants will help medical schools continue laying the groundwork of new treatments and methods of prevention of discase," he said...
Negotiators for Syria and Israel are meeting today at a secluded 1,100-acre estate about 50 miles from Washington for talks that both sides hope will lay the groundwork for a peace agreement. The talks are being brokered by the United States. Beirut bureau chief Lara Marlowe reports: "The principal barrier is clearly the future of the Golan Heights. Israel has refused to give it up entirely, and Syrian President Hafez Assad hasn't changed his position one iota. He wants control over the entire Golan Heights region. That means no Israeli presence whatsoever. Assad is very shrewd...
Three days later, the groundwork for Gingrich's Air Force One pique was laid when the Speaker was told by Pat Griffin, the President's top lobbyist, that Clinton would discuss budget issues on the return flight from Israel. So on Nov. 5, Gingrich spent more than four hours huddled with advisers at the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, preparing one-page statements for use during the in-flight negotiating session. Gingrich even had an exit line ready to be declared upon touchdown at Andrews Air Force Base: "If they can make peace in the Middle East...