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...emerging winners will be those that adapt most quickly to rapid growth and the changing market. With 1983 sales forecast at 7 million machines, the personal computer is already well on its way to becoming a mass consumer product...
Alicia, however, was not yet spent. By Thursday morning the storm had rolled 45 miles inland to Houston. Over the past ten years, the city's skyline has been transformed by glass-sheathed showpieces, like the S-shaped Allied Bank building. With rapid-fire pops, wind and flying debris punched out scores of windows in these architectural landmarks. "I stood upstairs in my office this morning and watched large sheets of plate glass coming down from 30 stories high," said Civil Defense Administrator Jonell Toole...
...appearances, however, are deceiving. By most yardsticks, the Israeli economy is in serious trouble. During the month of July alone, prices climbed 6.3%; the inflation rate for the year may reach a record 160%. The rise in prices has been so rapid that a 500-shekel note today is worth less than a 50-shekel note was in 1980. The country's G.N.P is expected to grow only 2% this year, after stagnating in 1982. Foreign debt is, at $20.9 billion, one of the highest per capita in the world, and the trade deficit may exceed $5 billion this...
...five years ago, President Carter provided Zaïre with fuel, medicine and equipment to crush a rebellion-cum-invasion there. It was the Carter Administration that promised to send an Army battalion to the Sinai peninsula to separate Israeli and Egyptian forces and encouraged the creation of a Rapid Deployment Force for quick dispatch to a possible Middle East skirmish; Reagan has simply executed those plans. Carter also resumed "nonlethal" military aid to El Salvador almost a year before Reagan took office, and approved an emergency shipment of arms to that country in the last days of his Administration...
...state to make it easy for banks to buy insurance companies and thus expand their consumer services. The Governor mailed engraved announcements of the deregulation to the 100 largest U.S. banks. Last month Citicorp won the state banking commission's permission to buy a state-chartered bank in Rapid City...