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...answer is almost certainly no. This is not, putting it mildly, a subject of wide or particularly pressing current interest. Barton Fink's capacity for spiritual uplift is nil, and though the plight of the eponymous scrivener is often bleakly funny, we are not talking Hot Shots! here. In fact, with its long passages in which, literally, we are invited to watch nothing more stirring than paper peeling off the walls (or not moving through Barton's typewriter), the movie may challenge the faith of even the most loyal Coenheads...
They're still waiting. Today Reliance is anything but paper free. Memos and forms proliferate as never before. Employees shun the computerized mail system. And productivity gains have been nil. While the company has curtailed its spending on automation, it has not abandoned its ambition. "It was not a realistic goal in 1983," concedes senior vice president Ronald Sammons, "and it isn't a realistic goal in 1993. Maybe in the year...
...nation's 100,000 schools -- roughly 1 for every 16 students -- along with an avalanche of disk drives, modems, laser printers and videodisk players. Estimated cost: $4 billion a year. But experts say the impact of all this technology on the basic operation of most classrooms is practically nil. Effective and innovative uses of computers in the classroom can be found, but they are about as rare as whale sightings...
...course, could have been posting signs. If the draconian penalties instituted by Viggiani (the third instance of smoking in a no-smoking area merits a trip to the Ad Board) had been implemented before, the number of smokers in no-smoking sections would probably have been reduced to nil. As it was, no attempt was made to reduce abuses of house rules between unclear regulations and a complete...
...trade into or out from Iraq, many experts estimated it would take at least six months, and perhaps even a year, before economic collapse would paralyze the Iraqi army and provoke street riots or coup attempts. So far, the political impact of the sanctions has been virtually nil. One effect, the imposition of gas rationing, was abruptly canceled last week when Saddam announced that the Oil Minister had underestimated the available supplies of necessary chemical additives. After firing the minister, Saddam gave...