Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...month ago in Guatemala and agreed that the aims of CONDECA included "the use of force against Marxism." Edgar Chamorro, a leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), the largest of the CIA-backed contra groups, predicts that the O.E.C.S.-sponsored invasion of Grenada will serve as a model for a CONDECA-sponsored U.S. invasion of Nicaragua. "The U.S. will let some time go by and then they'll do it again," he says...
...absence of independent reporting from the scene of the battle, and with little detail coming from the Pentagon, reporters did what they could; the television networks used file footage, lively electronic graphics and innumerable maps of Grenada. ABC stood its Pentagon correspondent, Jack Smith, in front of a table model of the island with a pointer to explain what the Pentagon said was happening. On Wednesday, CBS Correspondent Sandy Gilmour chartered a plane in Barbados to capture the first television pictures not supplied by the Government. He taped the naval activity around Grenada from a distance until...
...trade journals were filled with speculation about the new machine and its expected announcement date. Late last week the guesswork grew frenzied. After the Boston Globe published what it called a photograph of the home computer, Wall Street began hearing rumors that an angered IBM would delay the new model until early next year. But industry watchers quickly dismissed the reports as "disinformation" put out by the company to heighten suspense...
...Texas Instruments (1982 sales: $4.3 billion) announced a $110.8 million third-quarter loss and said that it was pulling out of the home-computer market. The company, which will continue to make and sell its Professional Computer for office use, said it is halting production of its 99/4A home model "in order to limit further financial drain." TI's losses for the first nine months of 1983, which were largely due to poor sales of home computers, totaled $222.9 million...
Despite IBM's secrecy, industry watchers have been able to describe the new home computer in fine detail. It is expected to come in a basic version with 64,000 characters of memory for $695, and an expanded model that includes a disc drive and twice as much memory for $1,295. Both versions will have far less overall capability than the PC itself, to keep them from biting deeply into the costlier product's sales. Perhaps the most striking feature of the new machine is a battery-operated keyboard that is not attached to the main part...