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Nowadays a zippy chorus or two of Happy Days Are Here Again would not be out of order either. After its initial burst of prosperity, the computer industry | fell into a two-year slump that some feared might signal a permanent slowdown in growth. The good news in computerdom is that the sluggishness appears to be over and many makers of personal computers are once again registering record revenues and plump profits. The companies' stock prices have recovered, and some firms are hiring factory workers and sales people after a long spell of layoffs and attrition. Best...
...tonic made in Fantasyland. The Beatles might have made Britain swinging for the young, but Bond was a travel-poster boy for the earmuff brigade. The Bond films even put a few theme songs (including Paul McCartney's Live and Let Die) on the pop charts. But their signal influence was closer to home. In the '60s, Bond spawned a whole genre of superspy imitators: Matt Helm and Harry Palmer in movies, Maxwell Smart and the men from U.N.C.L.E. on TV. Later a young generation of filmmakers found inspiration in the series' success. The past decade of high-tech adventure...
...greater social importance than rectifying the condition of those groups which have long been underpriveleged or discriminated against. Such a step now, when admissions officials across the country admit that attracting qualified Black and Hispanic students is becoming more and more difficult, would send the wrong signal to these minorities and to the American higher education community, of which Harvard is the primus inter pares...
...current slump does not necessarily signal the demise of American robotics. The industry is expected to perk up again by the end of 1988, partly because of increases in U.S. competitiveness caused by the falling dollar. Struggling American manufacturers have begun to adopt the electronic robot technologies of the Japanese and, like U.S. automakers, are moving their own assembly plants overseas to help cut costs. Above all, U.S. robotmakers have adjusted their own expectations of how the industry will perform in the future. "We're in a solid business with solid growth," says Bruce Haupt, a marketing manager...
...President's favor, but the battle left a bitter residue. Patrick Buchanan, then a White House aide, recalls asking Nixon what he would have done had the court gone against him. The President's angry response: "I was going to fire it anyway." That, perhaps, was a signal of troubles to come in Watergate, of Nixon's dark impulses to force the system to bend to his will...