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...economic measures brought the hibernating political opposition out in force for the first time since the Socialist victory. "Five years of such policies will set France back 20 years," fumed Raymond Barre, the former conservative Premier and an economics professor. Declared defeated President Giscard d'Estaing, in his maiden public comment on Mitterrand's performance: "Devaluation after just a few months in office rings out like the first sound of an alarm bell...
...Reading--Raymond Carver; Adams...
...Chess," as Mystery Writer Raymond Chandler once observed, "is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you could find anywhere outside an advertising agency." Chandler should have spent last week in Merano, the village in northern Italy's Dolomite mountains where the 30th World Chess Championship opened. Defending Champion Anatoli Karpov, 30, ordered that a plywood slab be installed underneath the chess table in the town auditorium. How's that? Well, said Karpov, Challenger Victor Korchnoi, 50, might kick him in the shins...
...between former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing and his rival, Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, the opposition is too fragmented to put up much of a fight when the issue comes up in Parliament this month. So far, the vacuum has been filled only by former Premier Raymond Barre, whose ponderous oratory and demeanor symbolized economic discipline during the Giscard years. "The nationalizations are a source of uncertainty for our enterprises and a brake on investment and exports," he scolded. "This experience is going to show that nationalized businesses are costlier than private ones...
Much of the growth is expected in programs that are self-explanatory and simple to use. At present, complexity and cumbersomeness bedevil the software industry, creating an obstacle to even greater acceptance of microcomputers. Says Raymond Kassar, chairman of Atari: "The key for the industry is to develop software that is understandable. Everybody is saying their software is easy...