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...Laser buffs have a simple answer," says Douglas Pratt, editor of the lively monthly Laser Disc Newsletter and author of The Laser Video Disc Companion (New York Zoetrope; $16.95), which reviews more than half of the approximately 2,000 titles available in America. "We say, 'Got a turntable at home? That doesn't record either.' " Despite its clear technical superiority and the fact that movies on disc often retail for 50% less than tape, laser still went for a rough ride in the marketplace. Both RCA and MCA pulled the plug on their separate videodisc ventures in the early...
...John Pratt, 54, who owns a service that supplies temporary industrial workers in Los Angeles, was less concerned about his long-term personal investments than about his business. "If the market hasn't recovered by the time I'm ready to go off into the sunset," he says, "this country is really in trouble. But I suspect that we could see a 10% to 20% drop in demand for our temporary labor as firms start to tighten...
...There have been other aspirations. "I used to dream of becoming a hockey player," says Bentkowski, who hails from Buffalo, "but I was a rare combination of lack of size and lack of speed." The world of magazine design was the obvious beneficiary. After graduating from Pratt Institute, he worked on a host of publications, among them Saturday Review, L'Express, the New York Times and the Atlantic...
Whenever there is discussion about the rivalry between the European Airbus and its U.S. counterparts ((ECONOMY & BUSINESS, May 11)), the same old arguments about unfair competition crop up. However, you did not mention that the different versions of the Airbus are fitted with U.S. turbofans built by Pratt & Whitney and General Electric. The situation for the U.S. aircraft industry is therefore not as bad as you describe...
...rest of the contest featured tighter defense than the squads had exhibited in their two previous meetings. The first two-and-a-quarter games played between Harvard and MIT were offensive displays, with 43 goals in just over 54 minutes of action. But neither team scored between Pratt's goal and the close of the third quarter...