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...computers marketed around the world. Now it sells less than 9%, and its machines seem to be disappearing from offices (except in the publishing business). Without market share, the worry goes, software companies will not write programs that entice more users, and market share will shrink further. Such uncertainties overshadow Apple's success last year at introducing an entire new line of computers, the Power Macintosh, which is elegantly designed and performs well and dependably compared with similar machines from other companies...
...with the Apple II, which defined the fundamental elements of a personal computer: hard drive, monitor, key board. Then Apple invented Macintosh, and desktop publishing. The company was a premium maker of first-class personal computers. When Apple succeeded, it made lots of money but saw its market share shrink drastically. Eventually the shrinkage caught up with it, and profits dwindled...
...just another engine of interest-group politics, albeit a different set of interest groups. Bill Bennett, the former Education Secretary and maven of the Republican moralists, worries about this. "What's come across quite clearly is that we Republicans are smart and serious and that we are going to shrink the government. What hasn't come across is a lot of compassion. It's not enough to bring down the welfare state; you have to say what replaces it. We lose if we come across as a bunch of mean-hearted creeps. We have to say yes to something...
...Washington Republican Rick White, had sought to clarify the matter. A compromise proposed by White would have ruled out fcc oversight of the Internet; it also would have replaced the problematic word indecency with the phrase harmful to minors, a more narrowly defined standard that keeps magazines like Penthouse shrink-wrapped in convenience stores...
These are troubling times in France, and there may be worse to come. With Chirac promising two years of belt tightening in order to shrink the government's huge deficits, the country faces the grim prospect of continued high unemployment and a paroxysm of social unrest that some fear could match the upheaval of May 1968. Chirac is betting that a dose of fiscal discipline will be rewarded by the return of strong growth, jobs and public confidence. If he loses that wager, disaffected voters may turn to the opposition Socialists in the 1998 parliamentary elections, which would produce...