Word: line
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...humming fax machine eliminates that once peaceful lull between completing a document and delivering it. "The fax has destroyed any sense of patience or grace that existed," says Hollywood publicist Josh Baron. "People are so crazy now that they call to tell you your fax line is busy...
...PRAYER FOR OWEN MEANY by John Irving (Morrow; $19.95). In this inventive, indignant novel, a boisterous cast and a spirited story line propel a sawed- off Christly caricature through two decades of U.S. foreign policy debacles...
...Administration's hard line has settled a feud between the Defense Department, which has championed the FSX deal as a strategic and technological boon for the U.S., and the Commerce Department, which challenged it as a giveaway of fighter technology to Japan. Both agencies now support the White House position. Says Defense Secretary Richard Cheney: "My hope is that we'll be able to get that clarification and resolve our differences with the Japanese...
...Philco during the ( Depression sounded hokey when it was used to seduce would-be sophisticates of the '70s. "Paul Masson will sell no wine before its time" joined the fleeting body of marketing folklore and spun off into dozens of jokes. (In one, the Welles impersonator intones the line, glances at his watch and says impatiently, "It's time...
...question: How much computing power can be packed onto a desktop? Last week the company gave a startling new answer by delivering its lowest-cost and most compact computer yet, the SPARCstation 1. The machine is priced at $9,000, about the same as a top-of-the-line Apple Macintosh, yet Sun claims the SPARCstation 1 has more than five times the power. The Sun machine's main operating unit is only the size of a pizza box; older units with equivalent power were too big to fit on a desktop. Two years in the making, SPARCstation...