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When companies do buy new gear, they are rapidly downsizing, junking their mainframes in favor of smaller, more flexible workstations, made by companies like Sun Microsystems. Because of this shift, mainframe sales are expanding only about 5% annually, less than half the rate of a few years ago. Says Rod Canion, president of Houston-based Compaq: "The rules are changing, and it's very difficult for the big-computer makers to accept." At the other end of the spectrum, some PC makers are getting hit with a different problem: a glut of machines. Says Michael Dell, who heads an Austin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Squeaking Along | 10/30/1989 | See Source »

Just as she did with her first LP. Etheridge has made a record of straight-ahead, stripped down rock and roll in which her throaty, deep. haunted voice (she may remind you of a more melodic. female version of Rod Stewart) overpowers the thin instrumentation of her band. You will only listen to her passionate voice, not the rather boring bass, drums and guitar behind...

Author: By David A. Plotz, | Title: Love's Labor Won | 10/6/1989 | See Source »

...incongruities and paradoxes survive to concentrate the mind. Like the newspapers that urge "bitter struggle" against "bourgeois liberalism" while trumpeting the pleasures of disco dancing on the same page. Like the never ending loop of music in the lobby of a hotel in Sichuan province that alternates between a Rod Stewart oldie (Sailing) and a socialist goody (Without the Communist Party There Would Be No New China). Like the young man break-dancing to a blaring Madonna album amid a few hundred elderly tai chi practitioners at a Shanghai park. Like the reserve and civility evident in personal relations that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Day in The Life . . . . . . Of China: Free to Fly Inside the Cage | 10/2/1989 | See Source »

...contemporaries as Olivier Messiaen and Steve Reich. His reading of Mahagonny is sharp, clear and briskly energetic (even a bit too much so in the lovely "cranes duet"). Gary Bachlund brings an appropriate touch of Nelson Eddy to the role of the doomed hero, though Anna Steiger (daughter of Rod) plays Jenny with a less happy touch of Jeanette MacDonald. As Lotte Lenya taught a whole generation of admirers, Weill's heroines should sound sexy, metallic and bitter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ferocious Parable | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...Tony Hinz 9 36 503 14.0 51 2 Mark Bianchi 10 17 211 12.4 34 0 Jim Reidy 9 7 135 19.3 55 0 Silas Myers 8 7 106 15.1 23 0 Passing Player G Att Yds AVG Long TD Tom Yohe 8 117 225 .520 1677 9 8 Rod MacLeod 9 29 52 .558 463 4 1 Tim Perrv...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1988 Football Statistical Leaders | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

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