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...Soviet Union to a mirror image of the "window of vulnerability" that so worries Reagan. That vulnerability will be even more acute for the Soviets, since their submarines and bombers are far inferior to those of the U.S. So are Soviet precision-guided munitions, miniaturized guidance systems and other high-tech hardware that proved so devastating in the Falklands and Lebanon...
...many virtues, the audience did essentially that--sat in the dark--while the 69-year-old Krapp listened to his own voice on a tape. The audience listened to him listen to himself, replay himself, and tape his reactions to the replays. Mercifully, by skillful use of some impressive high-tech equipment, director Adam Cherson has somewhat embellished the purity of this experience. In this new version, Krapp (David Gullette) sits facing a hidden video monitor, and his reproduced image faces the audience while the actor keeps his back to us, intently watching his younger self (Lorcan O'Neill...
...seemed like just the sort of sales coup that a fast-tracking high-tech firm would want to talk up. Thus when Andrew Corp. of Orland Park, Ill., which makes sophisticated telecommunications gear, managed to land a $3.5 million contract to supply microwave antennas to a French firm, company officials preened publicly at their achievement. The customer, Thomson-CSF, would be using the equipment to help establish a complex communications network that would serve much of the Yamal region of Soviet Siberia, where the U.S.S.R.'s vast 3,700-mile natural gas pipeline to Western Europe would originate. Then...
Wall Street followers of the company are still puzzling over Xerox's offer last month to pay some $1.6 billion in cash and stock for Crum & Forster, the 18th largest U.S. property and casualty insurer. High-tech Xerox in the insurance business? To many analysts, it seemed anomalous, a radical and inappropriate diversification of resources...
Both the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service were looking for people with degrees in accounting (which Harvard does not offer), and many of the high-tech companies wanted people with degrees in electronic engineering and computer sciences (of which Harvard awards fewer than 100 each year) Thus, many organizations said they attended more for publicity than for recruitment