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...item bibliography, Randall's greatest skill is portraiture. In A Little Revenge, both Franklins are vital, believable figures: Benjamin, "puffy and smooth from gout, his body overweight and rounded into the peculiar barrel shape of the once-powerful swimmer too long out of the . water"; William, "a smoother, thinner, sharper replica of his father, with the same impressive forehead, the same strong, straight nose apostrophizing the same set jaw and pronounced chin." Through his 20s, the younger Franklin is an almost biblical son, honoring his father, serving as lab assistant, aide-de-camp, courier, legal factotum, confidential secretary, bodyguard...
...Home System) format machine. Both use half-inch tape, but they are incompatible: Beta programs cannot be played on VHS machines and vice versa. Sony markets only Beta machines; RCA, GE and Panasonic, among others, market only VHS. Sears sells both. Many videophiles insist that Beta produces a slightly sharper image, but most people cannot see any difference in technical quality. Although Beta was introduced first, VHS has been far more successfully marketed: three out of every four machines now sold are VHS. The major disadvantage of buying Beta is that video rental stores often stock smaller inventories of prerecorded...
...example, where only one is needed. It means building storage tanks to withstand pressures and temperatures well above expected maximums. Adds Cox: "It's a process of calculating extremes, then designing beyond that." Every year the association reviews 1,200 engineering standards with an eye to making them sharper and tougher. American Cyanamid, a New Jersey-based chemical company, spent more than $10 million on safety features for just one plant in Pearl River, N.Y., where 4,000 people are employed. Allied, another New Jersey chemical giant, estimates that between 15% and 30% of the capital cost of building...
...rumors reflected the frustration of budgetmakers who have been handed an almost impossible assignment. Briefly put, a sharper than expected slowdown in the U.S. economy has made the task of reducing federal deficits more urgent than ever. Nonetheless, for reasons of ideology, politics or both, President Reagan at least for the moment has ruled out all the most obvious methods of stemming the red ink, and the economic slowdown has narrowed the only remaining escape hatch...
...Tarbell who perfected the technique. Her father, a minor Pennsylvania oil driller, was nearly ruined by John D. Rockefeller. Twenty years later she settled the score with her scathing 1904 History of the Standard Oil Company, which described some of the robber baron's sharper practices and led eventually to the dismantling of his empire. But as Kathleen Brady, a TIME reporter-researcher, points out in a graceful new biography, the scourge of Big Business was not always bent on vengeance. Most of the time she was a stiff-backed, old-fashioned antisuffragist who easily alternated between expos...