Word: solids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pale beside those of Apple, its own drop in profits was sobering news. IBM (1984 sales: $45.9 billion) accounts for some 40% of all U.S. computer sales and 70% of the industry's profits. Just seven weeks ago, during the company's annual meeting, Chairman John Akers confidently predicted "solid growth" for this year...
...mission also proves dicey for Berger. His writing, as always, is polished, but some vital tension is missing from Nowhere. The author's style of fastidious disdain -- half repelled, half fascinated -- seems to need a setting of solid, preferably seamy realism, like Reinhart's tacky heartland or Neighbors' fringe suburbia. Free floating over the fantastic topography of Saint Sebastian, he tends to lose his sting. Moreover, between streaks of zaniness, Berger allows Wren to lapse into his old college lecturing habits. Underlining a point about Saint Sebastian's preposterousness that would be best left implicit, Wren asks, "Did things make...
...curves. "If he wants to throw something you don't want him to throw," Manager Johnson has advised Carter, "try it his way for a while. He has a propensity for making the wrong pitch the right pitch." Carter is a catcher with soft hands and a solid vocabulary...
...crowd surrounded a weed-covered tomb that had been marked until hours before with the name of Wolfgang Gerhard, who died in 1979, two gravediggers began loosening the solid red clay with pickaxes and then started shoveling. Almost an hour later, their tools struck against the light- colored wood of a coffin. The diggers broke open the casket and, as the crowd jockeyed for position, began handing the contents up to Jose Antonio de Mello, assistant director of the Sao Paulo police forensic team. There emerged some dentures and a few earth-stained bones, some still covered by a pair...
...north of Miami during last month's fires. However, fire does not kill this pest tree; the insulating bark protects it even as the leaves burn. And like the Casuarina and Schinus, the Melaleuca is quick to invade areas scorched clear of native vegetation. Mature Melaleuca stands so solidly that it keeps out wildlife. Says Morton: "When I say solid, a rabbit can't get through." Melaleuca has already colonized 60 sq. mi. of swampland in southern Florida...