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Danson, with his mix of insouciance and egotism, is in peak form--trying, for example, to foment a rebellion among his co-workers against "Evita in there" after they've been thoroughly snowed by their new boss. Steenburgen needs to spend a few hours at the word processor before she'll convince us that she belongs inside a newsroom, but she plays off him well. The secondary characters are better than their pilot predecessors as well, largely because most of them (like the mousy business reporter played by Saul Rubinek) aren't pushed on us too hard. The one exception...
...been accused of a crime and was not even mentioned when three rival companies agreed to settle price-fixing charges last week. But the Justice Department clearly had its sights on Archer-Daniels-Midland, the politically powerful Illinois grain processor, when it accepted sweeping plea-bargain deals with three companies accused of fixing the price of the feed additive lysine. The companies--Ajinomoto and Kyowa Hakko Kogyo of Japan, and the U.S. arm of South Korea's Sewon--agreed to cooperate with prosecutors and pay a total of $20 million in fines to settle the case...
Intel's 64-bit processor is tailor-made for "tech-heads" who look upon the Pentium as dad's Buick...
...these features have a heavy cost--Navigator has become a huge program, and it takes a Pentium or Power Macintosh processor and 16 megabytes of memory to get good performance...
...third typewriter was the lucky one. When federal agents raided the 10-ft. by 12-ft. shack of Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski two weeks ago, they were overjoyed to find two old manual machines, relics of the pre- word processor, pre-Selectric age. Surely, one of these must be the antique on which the bomber pecked out his 35,000 word opus, Industrial Society and Its Future. In straight-faced leaks over the next week, the agents let it be known that, alas, the typefaces did not match, although they had high hopes for a third typewriter, discovered later. What...