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...woman during a 1978 robbery attempt. In its first four days of operation, the system cracked 34 unsolved cases. News of the computer's remarkable performance traveled quickly. One month later, NEC sold a second system to the state of Alaska, and eight months after that, California decided to scrap its existing system in favor of one built...
Recycling systems also show promise. Companies in California, for example, found that "pickling acid," which is needed in metal-processing plants to remove scale, could be mixed with zinc sulfate and used as a soil additive in citrus orchards, or mixed with air-filtered dust from scrap-steel plants to permit profitable recovery of zinc-iron compounds. Others have found that spent fluid from the manufacture of semiconductors could be used to refine old crankcase oil, helping to eliminate two disposal problems for the price...
...perhaps of shuffles soon to come? He teases the Reagan Administration about how it should "deal us yet another propaganda blow, say, by suspending the development of one of your new strategic missiles. And we would respond with the same kind of 'propaganda.' " Is that a veiled offer to scrap the U.S.S.R.'s threatening new multiple-warhead ICBM, the SS-24, in exchange for cancellation of the American...
Valenzuela feels more secure now that he is working for himself, in a shop that he built from scrap lumber. He got a permit to sell used tires from a local policeman who knows the Valenzuelas are illegal. The officer assured the family that they can report crimes without fear of exposure. Los Angeles Police Commander William Booth explains, "If someone is a victim of crime, we need to know about it, and it's not our policy to inquire about their status...
...moguls has since become its own Hollywood legend: Adolph Zukor, the Hungarian who had worked as janitor in a Manhattan fur store (president of Paramount Pictures); Carl Laemmle, the bookkeeper from Germany (founder, Universal Pictures); Samuel Goldwyn, the glove salesman from Warsaw (founder, Goldwyn Studios); Louis B. Mayer, the scrap-metal dealer from Minsk (vice president and general manager, Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer). By the 1930s Mayer was earning $1.25 million a year and was presiding over the all-American family of Andy Hardy...