Word: sierras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strong dollar and capital spending cutbacks have been painful to IBM. Some of the company's latest product introductions also seem to have been timed poorly. In February IBM unveiled its Sierra line, a family of mainframe computers to be delivered this fall. The announcement sharply curtailed sales of existing systems as prospective buyers waited for the new machines. IBM expected only a mild slowdown in such business...
Another key contributor to this week's story was Caribbean Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who has reported on Latin American drug trafficking for the past 20 years, first from Mexico City and now from Miami, one of the main U.S. entry points for cocaine. Says he: "From Mexico's Sierra Madre, where I covered opium-eradication programs in the 1970s, to Colombia's La Guajira Peninsula, which I visited late last year, the mark of the drug trade is the littered wreckage everywhere of smugglers' planes that didn't make it." The drug trade has apparently also wrecked the image...
...mysteriously manipulated up the ladder of layered caucuses for a final choice. One could go on to more outlandish and contradictory rules, laws, regulations. This unworkable system leaves both the parties and the candidates prey to local and hard-bitten pressure groups, from the National Rifle Association to the Sierra Club, from the antiabortion zealots to the equally tough leaders of the women's movement...
Interior officials dismiss the latest assessment of the environmentalists. One spokesman says that Clark is a lawyer and approaches problems on a case-by-case basis. "He did not set out to make a clean sweep, and he did not get rid of everyone that Sierra and Friends of the Earth would like us to get rid of," says Kallman. "He is required under law to consider all constituencies and it is, accordingly, a thankless job." Interior officials say they hope to be able to sit down with representatives of the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth...
...panel of experts who enact roles in hypothetical cases dramatizing Executive privilege, freedom of the press, school prayer, the right to life and other constitutional issues. President Ford and advisers like retired General Brent Scowcroft argue that classified information on covert CIA activity in the mythical country of Sierra Madre must be kept secret from Congress and the public. Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut and New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker disagree. The debate is familiar, but it gains discipline and clarity from the astute questioning of Moderator Benno Schmidt, dean of the Columbia Law School. Unfortunately, the hour...