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...imposed higher tariffs against several of its products, including power tools and laptop computers. But by that time the Japanese had already come to dominate the American market for memory chips. U.S. manufacturers, meanwhile, have claimed only 10% of the Japanese semiconductor market. Says John Greenagel, spokesman for Advanced Micro Devices, an American chipmaker: "Japan has the fastest-growing electronics market in the world, and not being in it is just killing...
...system stands, concentrators must take one of the department's intermediate level courses dealing with micro-and macro-economics. Ec 1011: "Micro- and Macroeconomic Theory" treats the subject matter with higher math than Ec 1010, which has the same title. Two years ago the department decided to require that honors concentrators take Ec 1011 and many have suffered lower grades and general confusion as a result...
...limousine: rarely used luxuries that took up space and slowed performance. The advocates of RISC, declaring that it was time to go back to basics, stripped away the nonessentials and optimized the performance of the 50 or so most frequently used commands. Says Ben Anixter, vice president at Advanced Micro Devices, a Sunnyvale, Calif., firm that is introducing its first RISC chip in two weeks: "It is like going from the complicated old piston airplane engine to the turbojet...
...Memos for the Next Millenium is a slim and dense book. Calvino discusses every form of narrative, from the prose poems of Francis Ponge and the micro-essays of Jorge Luis Borges (quickness) to the encyclopedic and incomplete novels of Robert Musil and Carlo Emilio Gadda (multiplicity). He addresses a variety of literary problems. In his essay on visibility, for example, he contrasts visual and verbal imaginations, examining the prefabricated images of the mass media and their control over how we create pictures from words and words from pictures...
...sizzle last week too, especially Emanuel Ungaro, whose bright follies exposed virtually the whole thigh. Yves Saint Laurent presented his customary, imperturbable show of regal but wearable clothes. His only jape was the bridal dress that traditionally ends couture shows. His bride wafted out in a white shirred micro-mini-bustier with an applique dove on her head...