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...Guinness Book of World Records anointed as the fastest microprocessor on the market. But the Americans are also reclaiming lost ground in memory chips. Intel, for instance, is the major producer of "flash" memory chips, one of the fastest- growing segments of the market. Flash chips, which can retain information even when the power is turned off, could one day replace computer disk drives. Other recent innovations include "voice" chips that can store audio recordings like a telephone-answering machine...
...upper hand. "On this case the U.S. is right," says Gary Hufbauer, a trade specialist at the Brookings Institution in Washington, voicing a widely held judgment among economists. Still, no one can deny that the U.S. zealously protects its domestic sugar, peanut and tobacco industries, among others. U.S. farmers retain considerable political power themselves: one of their lobbies reportedly twice foiled a GATT deal just as the two sides had come close to an agreement...
...part because of the players' enthusiasm forthe program, Harvard has decided to go against thegrain and retain its freshman team next year...
...world according to Marx. Yet Clinton also looks toward bankrolling much of his domestic program through deep cost cutting on defense. The promotion of disarmament, democracy and human rights abroad is not terribly persuasive if little money and muscle are behind it. As Dewar notes, moreover, "Clinton wants to retain the American presence abroad, but the question is, Will he be allowed to by the electorate and Congress...
...Xiaoping he knew from the days of President Ford, and Mikhail Gorbachev from President Reagan's -- which just meant he was slow to respond to new situations after the Tiananmen Square massacre and the rise of Boris Yeltsin. Bush's is an inertial view of the world, meant to retain old ties as long as possible, a kind of male-club loyalty to things as they were...