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...Professionals ! use computers to work at home, and young people like to play games on the machines. But companies are struggling to find applications that will make computers an essential part of the household. Most families still prefer to keep grocery lists on paper or balance checkbooks with a pencil...
...think you know the answer, yet be reluctant to pose the question. You might not even want to have a little show- biz fun with the 6-ft. 8-in., 300-lb. Hulkster. Billy Crystal got away with it on Saturday Night Live, but Richard Belzer, the pencil-armed host of cable TV's Hot Properties, was not so lucky. Four days before WrestleMania, Hogan was demonstrating a front chin-lock on Belzer, who went limp and fell unconscious to the floor. When he rose, a pool of blood had formed under his head; the comic required eight stitches. John...
...million in personal assets that General Dynamics says it impounded, Veliotis claims to be content in his luxurious villa, complete with rooftop swimming pool and garden, tucked into the hills overlooking Athens. "I have a very complete life here," says Veliotis, a heavyset man with beetling brows, a pencil mustache and a tiny hearing aid behind his left ear. "I now have the time to do all the things I wanted to do before...
...demand for home computers has been brisk but below expectations. Professionals use the machines to catch up with work at home, and many families enjoy playing computer games. But the range of other uses for computers in the home is still limited. Most consumers seem to think that a pencil remains the tool of choice for balancing the checkbook and updating the grocery list. Home-computer sales, which surged from 390,000 machines in 1981 to 4.8 million in 1983, declined by 6%, to 4.5 million, last year. Says John Pope of IBM's personal-computer unit: "Our expectations were...
...other sun-center starting with an M, "the new Malibu look" has has asymmetrical shirts, pants with cargo pockets, pencil pockets, bomb bay pockets, and even pocket pockets, and wide-shouldered, durable windbreakers in every shade compatible with sand