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...imagination of Doris Lessing does not seem to have daunted the author, whose career suggests a practical attitude toward the writing game. See has had good critical success with her novels Rhine Maidens and Mothers, Daughters. As a component of "Monica Highland," she has collaborated on mass-market romances (Lotus Land and 110 Shanghai Road). There is also Professor See, who teaches writing at UCLA, and See a book reviewer for the Los Angeles Times...
Starting a successful company is one thing, but running it is not always as much fun. That was apparently the feeling of Mitch Kapor, who suddenly resigned last week as chairman of Lotus Development, the largest independent U.S. software firm. Though he will not start a new firm that would compete with Lotus, Kapor said, he is not sure what he will do next: "I'm not leaving with a business plan in my pocket or any intention to write one tomorrow...
Even in a field known for chief executives in jeans and running shoes, Kapor is unconventional. A Yale graduate, he worked as a disk jockey and taught transcendental meditation before he started Lotus in 1982. Co-author of the Lotus 1-2-3 business program, the best-selling software ever, Kapor prospered as Lotus blossomed, and now owns 1.6 million of the company's shares, worth $54 million...
Publishers have adopted a variety of novel techniques to help stem the flood of telephone traffic. Borland International runs a forum on the CompuServe network where customers' questions are answered by either the company's technicians or other CompuServe subscribers. Lotus and Microsoft fill their disks with elaborate help messages that can be called up to the screen the moment a problem arises. Software Publishing, creator of the easy- to-use PFS filing and word-processing programs, refers callers back to their dealers...
...last year. He also streamlined the flow of budgetary data and reorganized New Hampshire's financial reporting systems so that records of all revenue and expenditures were channeled into the state's big IBM mainframe computer. Loading data from the mainframe into desktop machines and analyzing the numbers with Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets, the Governor and his staff can see at a glance where the state's money is going. Last fall, for instance, Sununu's office was able to forecast a shortfall in beer-tax revenues caused by the departure of summer-vacation guzzlers...