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...means .an isolated instance in the sales campaign that computer manufacturers have been waging at educational institutions. Salesmen offering incentives and deep discounts are swarming around wealthy school districts. "We are bombarded daily with catalogues of software, letters and phone calls," says Torance Vandygriff, principal of the Preston Hollow Elementary School in North Dallas, which last year raised $24,000 to buy classroom computers. Atari, in a joint venture with Post Cereals, will even swap equipment for proof-of-purchase coupons clipped from breakfast-cereal boxes. The exchange rate: one $300 Atari 800XL computer for every 3,125 boxes...
...Harvard sucks," all 300 cried in a rapturous thunder, their clamor muting the hollow sound of the Harvard band...
Finally, Mr. Louis blames the government, media, textbooks, and even professors (of all people for weaving a fabric of confusions and untruths. But this conspiracy theory rings as hollow as the cavernous emptiness of the rest of his assertions. For every National Review on the periodical shelves you can find a Village Voice (as Mr. Louis knows all too well), and for every Richard Pipes on a college faculty there are at least five John Womacks ranting and raving against supposed U.S. imperialism, oppression, and warmongering. It is precisely in countries such as the Soviet Union (and many Third World...
Japan's Sony Corp. has long boasted that it is "the one and only." But that confident advertising slogan now is beginning to sound hollow. The company that gave the world the transistor radio in the '50s, Trinitron color television in the '60s, the Walkman portable cassette player in the '70s and the Watchman micro-TV in the '80s is in trouble. In 1983 Sony's sales slipped for the first time in eight years, to $4.8 billion, while profits fell for the second consecutive year, to $119.3 million...
...completed by Borland's friend and sometime collaborator Les Line, editor of Audubon magazine, who also took the handsome color photographs that illustrate it. Borland's relaxed, graceful prose mixes botanical information (the intricate unfolding of shagbark hickory buds), historical oddities (the Midwestern pioneers who used large, hollow sycamores as barns or even dwellings), homely anecdotes (the willow posts in a neighbor's fence that took root and grew into a row of trees), and vivid turns of phrase (the black spruce needles that grow all around the twig "like the hair on the tail...