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...circuits plunged and the industry reacted by slashing capital spending in new plants and equipment by 52%. During 1979, however, demand for the chips surged as toymakers and electronics companies incorporated them into TV computer games and "smart toys" for tots. But domestic producers such as Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Texas Instruments were unable to fill the orders. Japanese manufacturers quickly filled...
...Gnomon Corporation reached an out-of-court settlement with seven publishers last Tuesday, agreeing to stop micro-publishing--printing anthologies for professors--and to limit other multiple copying of books, newspapers and magazines...
...made the adjustment perfectly. "I'm glad we got him," says Jean Phillips, associate dean of students. "He's a breath of fresh air." Stanley is responsible for a great deal of Carleton's daily functioning as well as for serious, long-term academic planning. "I'm a micro-Rosovsky," he explains, a teaching/scholarly dean whose primary responsibility is with the faculty. Moving from the stacks of Yenching Library to a desk in an administrative building, Stanley has confronted a "set of problems that are natural and human." Nothing is abstract and unimaginable--from deciding on budget expenditures to dealing...
...exam contains two one-hour questions on specific fields and two half-hour questions on micro- and macroeconomics. For the specific field questions, the student can choose two of 12 questions, which are distributed a week before the test...
...theory questions assume knowledge of micro- and macroeconomics at the introductory level...