Word: hooks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the convenience, home banking is still running into some serious customer resistance. Many consumers seem reluctant to buy the machines to hook up to the central computer systems unless they can find other uses for them. Viewtron's Sceptre terminal, for example, is available during the Florida introduction for $600 but later will cost $900. For the same money, customers can buy a home computer that can do more complex tasks like word processing. Moreover, after the initial expense, Viewtron customers pay a basic fee of $12 a month plus a $1-an-hour charge to the phone...
...along with Kung Fu industry: visiting a "chicken farm," where the ten-year-old and his sisters scavenge the effects of recently executed prisoners; negotiating a field laced with land mines, a legacy of the U.S. involvement; gazing unflinchingly as the children's mother impales herself on a hook; tracing the attempt of the children and their benefactor, a Japanese photographer (Lam Chi-cheung), to bribe and fight their way to "freedom," which here is just another word for some place else...
What's more, the decision serves Soviet interests by giving Gromyko an excuse to get himself off the hook. Gromyko wanted nothing less than to be subjected to a barrage of criticism from the assembled delegates at the United Nations, especially after his hostile reception at the Madrid Conference a week earlier...
...different rules, but we should take this into account in our dealings with them. And we most certainly should not fall for Soviet propaganda designed not so much to fool westerners, but to keep their own citizens wholly misinformed. That Mr. Louis and others have fallen for it hook, line and sinker is not testament to Soviet cunning, but to the incredible aptitude for self-delusion that is so apparent among unilateral disarmers. Eric Stockel...
...BLAME the deaths of 269 Korean Airlines passengers on the Cold War is just another way of letting the Soviets off the hook one more time. The ludicrous implication of the majority view is that the United States, with all its militant posturing, is in some way to blame for this incident because it has not made sufficient efforts to assuage Soviet paranoia...