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...computers get more skilled at searching out audiences, new magazines proliferate. There are now about 60,000 periodicals, new and old, published in the U.S. and Canada. Their subjects range from Patchwork Quilts to Gun Talk, not to overlook Dirt Bike magazine. Many of their readers concern themselves with politics only when politics intrudes upon their pet interests. But if their audiences are big or possibly significant enough, politicians come chasing. Playboy, Jimmy Carter decided, appeals to young fellows who do not follow the news closely and would never sit still for involved arguments, but might respond to idealized noises...
...shock of such big borrowers' falling on hard times over so brief a period has been sobering. Though Western banks and governments are rallying with patchwork rescues for Poland, Mexico and Brazil, their efforts are merely short-term answers to long-term problems. More important, each crisis has made it more difficult for other borrowers to raise funds and keep up with payments, hardly a reassuring prospect for a parade of more than two dozen debtor countries in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Soviet bloc...
...Vries warned that the debt situation is creating a "serious financial crisis." So far, a patchwork of new loans from private banks and increased lending by major governments and the International Monetary Fund has rescued Mexico, Brazil and other developing nations from default. Nonetheless, frightening risks remain. If, for example, the price of oil were to drop rapidly, debt-laden oil-producing countries such as Mexico and Nigeria would face a financial crunch. Said Greenspan: "There might be a financial run on those countries. Lenders could pull their money out and blow a hole in the system." De Vries suggested...
Thanks to Gary, a communications major from Penn State, Rob, 23, now lies in his bedroom in Hopewell Township, Pa., at the heart of one of the most sophisticated computer control and communications centers in the U.S. It is a remarkable patchwork of off-the-shelf electronics parts, including a desktop computer, a remote-control video recorder, a scattering of video games and pinball machines, a conference-type telephone system and a backyard antenna big enough to broadcast network-quality television signals. All of it was pieced together during the past five years by Gary and Ted Ruscitti...
...Tylenol nightmare has managed to drive consumer-products makers and the Food and Drug Administration into a hasty alliance. Although companies have long accused the FDA of issuing meddlesome regulations, they are now anxiously seeking national packaging guidelines out of fear of a patchwork of new state and local requirements. The Proprietary Association, a trade group that represents manufacturers and distributors of 90% of over-the-counter Pharmaceuticals, has gone so far as to recommend rules that would cover all preparations that can be "ingested, inhaled, injected or inserted in the human body, or applied for ophthalmic use." Cook County...