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...certain extent, he has benefited from the low profile assumed by his archrival, Roberto d'Aubuisson, the cashiered army major whose Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) holds 19 seats. Since D'Aubuisson visited the U.S. in June, he has dropped out of sight, reportedly to enter the shrimp fishing business. Perhaps unwisely, Duarte has neglected to woo Francisco José ("Chachi") Guerrero, leader of the moderately conservative National Conciliation Party. Guerrero commands 14 seats and would be a key figure in any Assembly coalition...
...International Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago is the gaudy showcase of American high tech. By day, 100,000 industry officials throng the aisles of vast McCormick Place, surrounded by towering displays at 1,381 booths. At night, they dip shrimp into cocktail sauce at lavish corporate receptions and gossip about the competition. A year ago at the show, people were predicting that it was just a matter of time before there would be a computer in every house. But last week much of the talk was about the slow growth in home computers...
Words are supposed to spill from writers' minds like shrimp, especially on momentous occasions like graduations, weddings, funerals; we do it all. Instead, I reach in my desk for some verbal pocket watch to wrap up for you in tissue paper, and come up blank. Too dazed or polite, you stare at my face the way Telemachus must have stared on the beach at Ithaca, searching for Ulysses among the sailors...
...operating permits before it had set formal regulations for ocean incineration. The agency's pace led to protests. At open hearings in Brownsville last November, more than 6,000 demonstrators, including Texas Governor Mark White, confronted EPA officials. They argued that a spill at sea could destroy the shrimp and tourist industries on the south Texas coast. When the EPA answered that this eventuality was remote, White commented, "No one believed the Titanic could sink either...
...Brazilian market consists mostly of banks and manufacturers. In a nation in which wages average $160 a month, few families can afford computers. But the machines are popping up in some unfamiliar places. They help shrimp farmers determine how much feed to use, and the government has begun installing them in the offices of the country's 69 federal Senators. The legislators will use the computers to keep track of everything from the size of last year's soybean crop to the names of the children of their most influential constituents...