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...computer software, have assumed the role long played by Big Blue as the industry's pacesetters. What is taking place is a generational shift unprecedented in the information age -- one that recalls a transition in the U.S. auto industry 70 years ago, when Alfred Sloan's upstart General Motors surpassed Ford Motor as the nation's No. 1 carmaker. The transition also reflects the decline of computer manufacturers such as IBM, Wang and Unisys, and the rise of companies like Microsoft, Intel and AT&T that create the chips and software to make the computers work. "Just like Dr. Frankenstein...
...Sayles enjoys listening to people, picking up their quirks and cadences. These characters don't barge into Passion Fish, they just drop by. And they are worth the visit. The movie squirms to life when the subsidiary folk appear: Rennie (David Strathairn), the engaging "swamp Cajun" with the motor boat; Chantelle's beau Sugar (Vondie Curtis-Hall), whose pleasure in women is a contagious delight; Kim (Sheila Kelley) and Nina (Nancy Mette), two soap-opera actresses who give zest and drama to any line reading; May-Alice's gay, weary old friend Reeves (Leo Burmester), who chats about "homoerotic delftware...
HARRY THOMASON KNEW THAT LIFE had changed forever when he fell off a motor bike he was riding with his nephew on the driveway on New Year's weekend. Just minutes after 911 was dialed, the sheriff, highway patrol, fire department and rescue unit streaked to his new house near Santa Barbara. As his head was being immobilized on the stretcher one of the paramedics said, "Do you think you could get these Clinton T shirts signed for me?" Thomason replied, "If I live...
Employers, who provide coverage for 85% of their workers, are staggering under the costs. Among the hardest hit are industrial giants, which support millions of aging retirees, whose medical bills far exceed those of younger people. Ford Motor, for example, was compelled to make a fourth-quarter write- off of $7.5 billion to account for the costs of providing medical coverage + for its retirees, a blow that will probably force the automaker to report the largest annual loss (nearly $7 billion) ever suffered by a U.S. corporation. AT&T expects to take a similar write-off this year, and General...
...less water than needed, forcing the poor to drink from untreated supplies often contaminated with hepatitis virus. An epidemic of the disease has been raging for more than a year. Those taking medicines often get sicker because unscrupulous local manufacturers sometimes boost profits by adulterating pills and potions with motor oil, sawdust and tainted tap water. Says Mohammad Farooq Sattar, 32, the former mayor, who started his career as an M.D.: "Karachi is a city very much in need of a doctor...