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...both electronics and food? The chairman insists that it is a marriage of perfectly suited partners. He notes that the food industry has a low rate of expansion, but great stability and a consistent cash flow. The electronics business, on the other hand, has just the opposite: a rapid rate of growth, but also high risk. Says De Benedetti: "The two activities, in a sense, are perfectly integrated...
...Administration claimed that an emergency had indeed arisen from Nicaragua's "aggressive activities in Central America." It laid out a litany of accusations to back up the contention. Among them: "Nicaragua's continuing efforts to subvert its neighbors, its rapid and destabilizing military buildup, its close military and security ties to Cuba and the Soviet Union and its imposition of Communist totalitarian internal rule." The embargo would end, said Speakes, when the Sandinistas took "concrete steps" to moderate their behavior...
...Congressmen and 14 Senators. "At this rate," says Richard Garwin, a critic of SDI and a noted IBM physicist, "the program will soon have such momentum that there'll be no stopping it, regardless of merit." Says former Chief Arms Control Negotiator Paul Warnke: "What's happening is the rapid conversion of the President's Star Wars proposal from stardust and moonbeams to the great pork barrel...
Burcham's rapid decline and death are the latest in a series of disappointments and unforeseen disasters that have plagued the artificial- heart program. Both Clark and Schroeder, who is now living in a specially equipped apartment across the street from the hospital, suffered serious neurological problems that left them mentally impaired. Haydon, who was hailed two months ago at the time of surgery as the best implant candidate of all, has yet to be weaned from a respirator. At the Louisville conference, DeVries for the first time publicly presented his most recent findings on the array of complications associated...
...Cosby Show's achievements have been rather wildly overstated. To be sure, at a time when most TV families inhabit a farcical never-never land, the series has much to recommend it. Its structure is unusually loose and laid- back for a sitcom, avoiding gimmicky plots and rapid-fire gag lines. Its subject matter is the recognizable trivia of family life: a son who won't clean up his room, a child who is afraid to sleep alone after seeing a scary movie, a visit from Grandpa...