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...grievances against the Soviet Union, Gorbachev yielded. He pulled Soviet troops out of Afghanistan, used his influence on Hanoi to bring about a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces from Cambodia, cooperated with the U.S. in achieving negotiated settlements to civil wars in Central America and Africa and pulled the plug on leftist dictatorships in Nicaragua and Ethiopia...
...news at the moment is NewTek's Video Toaster, a $1,595 plug-in board that attaches to Commodore's video-friendly Amiga computer. It gives operators a "frame grabber" to freeze images for computer manipulation, an animation program to create flying 3-D titles and a long menu of digital effects like the Star Trekkian "transporter" that can dematerialize people from the screen...
...companies decided last week to put away their boxing gloves. IBM and Apple plan to join forces and share technology in a potentially powerful partnership that could reshape the computer industry. The culmination of weeks of cross-country negotiations, the collaboration could help plug large gaps in their product lines and position both companies for the future. Among the elements...
...million to complete it. The government refused to pay, and the company refused to make any more radars. Now, with the Weather Service logging a record year for tornadoes (1,033 so far this year), the program is still stalled in court. A decision on whether to pull the plug on Unisys is expected within weeks...
Duany and Plater-Zyberk have devised a practical way to wield influence beyond the projects they can plan and design each year. They have drafted a Traditional Neighborhood Development ordinance that can plug right into the existing system -- and subvert it. The T.N.D. is a boilerplate document that codifies the nuts-and-bolts wisdom Duany and Plater-Zyberk have acquired, which cities, towns and counties can enact. "The T.N.D. thinks of things like corner stores the way other codes think of sewers," Duany explains. "Everybody simply knows you have to have them." More than 200 local planning departments and officials...