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Denver's city council deepened the task by refusing to award the job of operating the system to BAE, the only company that really knows anything about it. Leaders were worried that the Dallas outfit wouldn't hire enough minorities and women, though the firm insisted it would. In the wake of political infighting over who should get the lucrative contract, it went to an outsider, Aircraft Service International of Miami, which has had to race to fathom the system in a few months. Then too the eagerness of Denver's leaders to retain control and ensure minority participation...
...particular, the new 755 will incorporate the 750's brilliant 10.4-inch active matrix screen technology as well as integrated audio for multimedia applications. Buyers of the 755 will be able to outfit their machine with either Intel's 50 MHz 486DX2 or 75 MHz 486DX4 microprocessors, the fastest of their kind...
...Rams have invoked their escape clause at Anaheim Stadium -- at last look the Big A was tilting dangerously -- and could begin negotiating a move to St. Louis, where the Gateway Arch, at least, is still upright and the ticket-buying citizens are likely to forgive an outfit that passes over a glamour quarterback so it can draft a defensive lineman...
...result of all these commercial drawbacks, the original distributors sent Red Rock West straight to cable and video. Another outfit picked it up, however, and it is belatedly making its way into a few theaters. It's well worth tracking down, wherever you can find it. For it has the kind of tension and energy -- maybe even a touch of delirium -- that is only a memory in most of today's big studio movies. You just know that no one connected with Red Rock West owns a suit or a tie or knows how to write a self-protective memo...
...Such outfits were not outrageous couture fantasies; they were ready-to-wear clothes with prices accessible to many women. Most of the hell-raising pieces in Byron Lars' young collection are around $300. Anna Sui's are in about the same range. The Ghost line starts at $265 for an outfit. An Anne Klein skirt and jacket costs around $1,300. And, of course, fast, expert rip-offs make the popular styles affordable to anyone who can buy new clothes...