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...only a surrogate." >Corinne C. ("Lindy") Boggs, 68. She came to office the old-fashioned way, by succeeding her late husband, Louisiana Congressman Hale Boggs. But she has stayed for six terms by carefully looking after her 45% black New Orleans district, and applying four decades of Washington know-how to a selected set of issues...
Normandy was, of course, a joint Allied operation. But the Americans, from Eisenhower down, dominated the drama. The invasion, in a way, was a perfect expression of American capabilities: vast industrial energy and organizational know-how sent out into the world on an essentially knightly mission-the rescue of an entire continent in distress. There was an aspect of redemption in the drama, redemption in the Christian sense. The Old World, in centuries before, had tided westward to populate the New. Now the New World came back, out of the tide, literally, to redeem the Old. If there has sometimes...
While they have nurtured domestic manufacturers, the government policies have also helped to jack up the price of Brazilian computers by limiting competition and access to foreign know-how. "By and large, Brazilian micro-and minicomputers are comparable to other machines on the international market," notes Helio
While in California, Mitterrand wallowed in American technological know-how, inspecting a solar-powered village in Davis before sitting down with high-powered Silicon Valley executives at Stanford University. The French President was rapt when Whiz-Kid Steven Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer Inc., explained how venture capital and small companies helped trigger the Silicon Valley boom...
...company name from Kannon, the Buddhist figure that represents mercy. The firm made the first advanced 35-mm camera produced in Japan in the 1930s and stayed with these relatively slow-selling models for decades. But after moving into calculators and copiers in the 1960s, Canon applied its electronics know-how to cameras and devised the breakthrough AE-1. The company followed up in 1979 with the Sure Shot, a highly popular $100 pocket camera that automatically focuses itself by using an infra-red beam to measure the distance to the subject. Then in 1982 came the $60 Snappy...