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...matter how those complex issues are finally resolved, the coming battle in telecommunications will be a multi-billion-dollar struggle of giants. AT&T is already one of the world's leading producers of an array of highly sophisticated electronics equipment and computer-driven data and information-processing equipment. Yet the outside world rarely learns of its prodigious high-tech output, since virtually all of it is consumed internally by subsidiaries and affiliates throughout the Bell System. Now the company can begin offering its products to anyone who wants to buy them...
...supply the 200,000 additional troops mandated by Reagan's Pentagon bonanza--especially if demographic predictions hold and the pool of 18-year-olds drops in the future. Well, the point is that we don't need more soldiers, just as we don't need more new types of high-tech gadgetry that can't get off the ground or out of the mud. Recruiting and retention rates for military personnel rose dramatically last year; there was even marked improvement in racial and economic representation. These trends must be nurtured with higher pay and productive benefits, like guaranteed tuition support...
Equally unsettled is the outlook for SelectaVision, the high-tech consumer product that RCA has been counting on to grab a share of the booming $2.5 billion home video programming market. Though RCA has so far sold 60,000 SelectaVisions, the company predicted that it would sell 200,000 last year...
...assembly line rock." Apparently wishing to dissociate itself from the squadrons of European bands flying in with the new "dance" sound, U2 could succeed even without Irish passports. The group has the superbly danceable beat of Ul-travox, replacing only the flashy electronics and crisp engineering of the high-tech groups, with the simple melodic energy of the best sort of folk music...
Sally Field prances through the movie in high heels and custom-tailored suits, more concerned with keeping her hair in place than covering all the bases on a story. Her strained toughness-she addresses her "prey" as Gallagher even after her interest in him becomes more than professional--clashes oddly with her naivete, evidenced every time she puts her pert nose to a hot tip. As she stands in her high-tech kitchen blinking longingly at Gallagher, we may believe many things about her. That she is a newspaper reporter is, unfortunately, not one of them...