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Personal computer sales rose 11% in 1984, to 7.5 million. That rate would be high for an industry like steel or rubber, but it was much less than the 107% gain in 1983 and far below expectations. Moreover, the growth came primarily from computers for office use. The once sizzling home computer market now seems to be fizzling. Sales of machines targeted for the home actually declined by 4% last year, to 4.8 million. The industry originally expected to sell 7 million home computers in 1984. Says Charles Martin, editor of Personal Computing magazine: "The business has now returned...
...company's 2,000 staffers, who had agreed to a 25% pay cut last August, seemed to be growing weary of the rubber checks. "I have a deep commitment to U.P.I., but I want to get paid," said Stephen Hagey, a Washington-based copy editor. Still, the spirit that kept the wires clacking through U.P.I.'s 78- year history is still in evidence. On a pillar in the Washington office hangs a sign: SURRENDER, HELL...
...every shepherd these days is out tending his flocks in a field. To produce a more perfect wool, some Australian farmers are keeping their sheep indoors and pampering them like Park Avenue poodles. They provide tires, logs and rubber balls to keep the sheep amused, feed them a vitamin-enriched mix instead of letting them graze, and even wrap them in cloaks to protect their fleece from dirt...
...riot squads raced to the scene with canisters of tear gas, they found themselves confronted by roughly 3,000 protesters, some of them lifting their arms in a black-power salute and chanting "Amandhla!" ("Power!"). The slum dwellers hurled stones at passing vehicles; the authorities opened fire with rubber bullets and bird shot. For hours, police chased rioters through a labyrinth of tumbledown shacks. By the time the battle had subsided the following day, 28 police vehicles had been damaged and 26 policemen injured on the one side; 18 were dead and 250 wounded on the other...
...reality, the Overseers gather only a few times a years and virtually rubber-stamp what the Corporation decides. The Overseers maintain their influence through a host of special "visiting committees." boards of experts and alumni which help shape the long term direction of individual Harvard departments...