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Over four days last week, 1,500 computer dealers in 25 U.S. cities listened to pep talks from John Sculley, president of Apple Computer. He showed them new television commercials, answered questions and announced that this week the Lisa computer, which sells for $9,995, will have a new stripped-down price of $6,995. The price cut for the Lisa, introduced last January with much fanfare, marks another skirmish in the war between Apple (estimated 1983 sales: $1 billion) and IBM (estimated 1983 sales: $40 billion) for the personal-computer market...
Mondale's sly question drew a roar of approval from an audience of black ministers, small-town mayors and businessmen. Officially, they were meeting to discuss issues such as education, jobs, black voting rights and voter registration. But the gathering turned into a pep rally for a black presidential candidate, with Jackson, 41, at the top of the ticket. His speeches were interrupted by chants of "Run, Jesse, run." Delegates sported buttons with Jackson's face and the I AM SOMEBODY tag line he coined and made famous. "If not now, when?" demanded Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary...
Each Monday morning at 8:30, Nohmura and 100 co-workers assemble for chokai, a corporate pep rally, where they kick off the week by reciting twelve company creeds...
...after day, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat led motorcades into eastern and northern Lebanon last week for a series of public pep rallies and private meetings with his military commanders. At every whistle-stop along the way he told his Palestinian followers that dissension within P.L.O. ranks was being fomented by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi and "some other Arab regimes." If Gaddafi did not stop his interference, Arafat warned, he would "cut out his tongue." As a result of such troublemaking, said Arafat, the Palestinians must fight harder than ever to maintain their solidarity and must prepare for another...