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With its new found lull-cm-to-sleep and ambushem-in-the-waning-seconds tactics. Yale has rebounded from last year's 1-9 disaster to jump into undisputed third place in the Ancient Eight...
Muzak and other forms of background music have been a part of the American office scene for a half-century, partly in the belief that music soothes people into working more efficiently. But all of it sounds pretty much alike, and some of it, in fact, can lull people to sleep. Now two Washington State entrepreneurs, Michael Malone and Mark Torrance, have selected different kinds of music for different kinds of situations. They call it foreground music. Malone's firm, Audio Environments of Seattle, this year expects sales of $15 million...
...image was grimly familiar: a fighter flashing across the morning sky over the azure waters of the Persian Gulf and firing an Exocet missile into a neutral ship. After a 22-day lull in the Iran-Iraq tanker war, an Iraqi pilot last week claimed another victim, the 25th of the conflict. World Knight, a 258,437-ton tanker owned by Hong Kong Shipping Magnate Sir Y.K. Pao, was bound for Kharg Island to pick up Iranian crude oil. Two British officers and four Chinese seamen were killed immediately as the Exocet demolished the ship's aft superstructure...
...makers of small machines. As the number of personal-computer companies grew from a handful five years ago to more than 180 today, competition became ferocious. Except for a few leaders, the firms are scrambling for shelf space in stores at a time when sales have hit an unexpected lull. Quips Fred Hoar, a former Apple executive and now vice president of Raychem, a specialty chemical company: "The personal-computer industry has reached a new chapter in its history: Chapter...
...Saudi-Iranian encounter came during a relative lull in the fighting. At least two more ships were hit during the week. Iraqi Super Etendards swooped down on the Turkish tanker Buyuk Hun in the vicinity of the Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island (see box). The ship was set ablaze and had to be abandoned, but its crew was rescued. At week's end Iraq" also claimed its warplanes had hit two "naval targets," otherwise unidentified, near Kharg Island, but the attacks could not be confirmed...