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...That has seldom, if ever, been the case. Through a complex system of cross subsidies, brilliant in concept but worrisome in practice, one type of phone service has helped pay for another. That kept phone costs down and within almost everyone's reach, but led to price inequities. A phone line in San Francisco that cost Pacific Telephone $29 to install and maintain monthly was billed to the customer at $7. The difference was made up by higher prices for other services, like heavy tolls for calls from one end of the Bay Area to the other. Similar subsidies...
...Byerly Hall--where admissions officers must daily contend with the image of Harvard as an impersonal university. Whose professors are seldom seen outside of lectures--Senior Admissions Officer David Evans said Limerick's report could reinforce that stereotype. "It's going to make our job a little tougher," he said Wednesday...
...Seldom had the vast Soviet propaganda machine sputtered and coughed so loudly. It began when Kremlin Spokesman Leonid Zamyatin strongly hinted three weeks ago that the Soviets would pull out of the Geneva talks on medium-range missiles if NATO went ahead with deployment of Pershing II and cruise missiles in Europe. Two days later, Warsaw Pact foreign ministers meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, ambiguously announced that they favored continuation of the negotiations, but only if NATO delayed deployment. Then Zamyatin took another tack, telling the West German magazine Stern that it would be the fault...
Innovation, however, has seldom been IBM's strongest selling point. The company has traditionally stressed service and reliability. The PC, for example, was not a technological breakthrough and is assembled largely from parts made by outside suppliers. Its microprocessing heart is manufactured by California-based Intel, while the monitor's display tube is produced by Japan's Matsushita. Microsoft of Bellevue, Wash., provides the operating system, or master program. The PC has been successful largely because the IBM name symbolizes confidence and security in a field known for instability and uncertainty...
Such questions are not likely to be adequately addressed in time of crisis. And yet it is precisely because of the crisis that the Administration should be asking them. Seldom in times of peace have U.S. forces found themselves to be involved in so many places at once. Navy ships are still searching the Sea of Japan for wreckage from KAL 007. Ground, air and sea forces are still conducting exercises in Central America. Peacekeeping forces are still in the Sinai. And now the actions in both Lebanon and Grenada are requiring large commitments of available ships, planes...