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...fallen behind in microelectronics technology." The company has vast financial resources and unquestioned technological prowess, but skeptics wonder if it has enough marketing skill for the fast-moving chip competition. Asks George Gilder in Release 1.0, an electronics-industry newsletter: "Can a monopoly-coddled monster find happiness in the merchant semiconductor mar ket? Can an elephant play jacks...
...their demon is not from outer space or the weirder reaches of the occult. No, Cujo is a junkyard dog. But he is huge. And maddened by rabies. And thoroughly implacable in his need to kill. As he proved in Alligator, Director Lewis Teague is a sly and stylish merchant of fear; as she proved in The Howling, Wallace knows how to play a scared lady; and as he proves on the spot, little Danny Pintauro is an actor of uncommon appeal...
...proposed solution is a salmon-tagging stratagem similar to one used successfully in Canada. Legally caught salmon are tagged by the head or tail. Anyone-fisherman, merchant, even restaurateur-who handles an untagged fish could be liable to a sizable fine...
...wonders what might have happened to Houseman had the Great Depression not ejected him from his merchant princedom in the grain-trading business. No doubt he would have become rich. Then, given his artistic bent, he would certainly have involved himself in the theater, probably as one of those opinionated amateurs, an intrusive, indispensable backer of the exasperating kind he describes at several points in his story Certainly Houseman could have played such a role with ease. But if he had, who would have played Houseman...
Perry presented a White House letter announcing that the U.S. wanted: 1 ) a fueling station for its merchant ships, 2) a commercial treaty permitting free trade, and 3) friendship. If the Japanese did not accede to U.S. terms, he implied, he would impose them by force. The Japanese could hardly ships they had no navy with which to defend themselves. Despite the opposition of the figurehead Emperor, the shogun regime, which actually governed the country, reluctantly signed a series of coerced treaties with five nations from 1854 to 1858. The barbarian merchants and missionaries began moving...