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...matter that quickly came to depend on the Kansas City Royals, the more properly situated it seemed. Leaving the midst of a summer's trouble for a middle-of-the-country October, baseball settled down last week in Missouri, making whistle-stop connections with the past on a slow-moving train from Kansas City to St. Louis and back again...
...Unkindness of Ravens (Pantheon; 245 pages; $15.95) by Ruth Rendell marries the two disparate strains in her writing: the slow psychological disintegration of ordinary people thrust into extraordinary circumstances, and conventional detection by kindly Chief Inspector Reg Wexford and his younger deputy Mike Burden. The plot involves bigamy and incest and probes the links between feminism and lesbianism. As is almost always true in a Rendell narrative, things are considerably simpler than they at first seem. Her portrait of the killer is a classic Christie-style evocation of narcissistic...
...call took the family to the U.S. and kept them hopping from way station to way station. Young Wilfrid, the eternal transfer student, felt like a newspaper tossed on a lawn. Not even when he was struck by polio at the age of 1 3 did his parents slow down their perpetual motion in the service of the Lord...
Indeed, the slow growth of the computer market has been a chief source of the chipmakers' woes. They hastily built new plants and hired workers after personal computers, which are major users of semiconductors, became best sellers in 1983. But the popularity of desktop machines has so far failed to grow at the euphoric rate that experts predicted. Instead of doubling, personal-computer sales will do well to rise by 30% in 1985. That slower than anticipated growth, combined with weak demand for other types of computers, has contributed to a sharp drop in semiconductor prices. Result: worldwide chip revenues...
Even though the U.S. economy is trudging along at a slow 3% annual growth rate, investors see plenty of reasons for putting their money on the line. They feel particularly buoyed by declining interest rates. Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker hinted last month that the central bank will continue to apply downward pressure on rates in order to keep the economy moving. Volcker seemed to confirm that policy last week, when he stated that the Fed's open-market committee will keep a relatively loose rein on the money supply, a strategy that should keep plenty of cash available...