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...regular morning briefing in the Oval Office from his taciturn National Security Adviser, Vice Admiral John Poindexter. The President's jaw clenched when Poindexter mentioned the missiles, but unlike most of the others present, he was content to wait. "He didn't pound the table or try to micro-manage the situation," said one participant. "He had in mind what happened when they tried to run the Iranian hostage rescue operation from 8,000 miles away." The President, referring to Kelso, said only this: "The man knows what he's doing...
That's because this band shies away from heavy songs dripping with meaning, blending instead the music hall tradition of tunes that tell stories (albeit purposely offbeat ones), familiar relationship ditties (such as their micro-hit "I Want You Back" of a year or two ago), and the sort of vague idealism numbers that all bands that critics like must have...
...time making that guarantee more difficult to assure. A moment's reflection on the Sloan-Kettering case described above shows why; whereas ten years ago access to computers was limited in most cases to users who could get into a terminal room, today anyone with an inexpensive personal (or "micro") computer and a modem (a device that allows computers to communicate over telephone lines) can access the majority of computers in the United States. [Its computer security] becoming more and more critical because we're getting our computers all hooked together through local and national networks; its also getting harder...
...latest profit reports reveal the extent to which semiconductor makers have been raking in the chips. Last week Intel Corp., a major Santa Clara, Calif., producer of logic and memory circuits, said its third-quarter earnings more than doubled to $70 million, vs. $32.1 million last year. Advanced Micro Devices had an even bigger gain. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chipmaker made $42.1 million in its latest quarter, against $12.2 million for the same period a year...
Those glowing income statements reflect both the strength of the U.S. economy and the ever growing pervasiveness of chips. "Semiconductors are here and people now recognize that," says Stephen Zelencik, a senior vice president of Advanced Micro Devices. "They are everywhere, for every reason, in everything." Chips have long since become the most popular components of watches. In cars they monitor antipollution systems and adjust idle speeds. In factories they control robots and automated assembly lines. They are embedded in virtually every major weapons system, where they perform such crucial tasks as aiming guns and navigating flights...