Word: splits
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...editing on a VCR calls for extraordinary patience and split-second timing. That's where the computers come in. With an automated editing machine -- like Videonics' $599 DirectED PLUS -- instructions for making cuts can be punched into a keyboard as the footage rolls by on a TV screen. The computer remembers the markings, and when the tape is played again, the machine automatically splices together the chosen sequences. Computers can also be used to generate titles, graphics and fancy scene shifts -- like the "tumble," in which one image seems to turn over to reveal another...
...cracks appeared in the coalition after it became known that blacks were being hired for patronage jobs at a much higher rate than Hispanics. When Washington suddenly died in 1987 just a few months into his second term, a succession battle split the city. Two years later, 75% of Hispanics deserted the black candidate, city alderman Timothy Evans, and cast their ballots for the winner, Richard M. Daley, son of the late Chicago boss. Explains alderman Luis Gutierrez: "Rich Daley sent a message -- 'I'll build a coalition with Hispanics, and my government will respond...
...Washington and along the Colorado, everyone who depends on the river is likely to feel some pain. Every adjustment made to please one group will inevitably have unpleasant consequences for the others. Farmers and city dwellers cannot possibly both be satisfied. Environmentalists and Native Americans, allies on many issues, split over the Colorado: the tribes want more development on their reservations, the environmentalists less. Water conservation that is good for California turns out to be bad for Mexico. Babbitt calls the development of the Colorado an "extraordinary achievement" but argues that the very success of this plan spawned the myth...
Beyond that, the E.P.L.F. must convert itself from a rebel army to a civilian government that can resuscitate a region devastated by 30 years of war, a land where fields are barren and industries are still. Otherwise the leadership risks a split in the unity that has brought the independence movement this far. As an Eritrean civil servant put it, "We have our independence. That's good. Now, where are the jobs...
That position repelled some of the small parties that have been springing up and split others. Nikolai Travkin, head of the Democratic Party of Russia, withdrew promised support; he is under fire from dissenters who accuse him of being -- to borrow an old American term -- soft on communism. They plan to hold a founding congress of yet another new party, an oddly named Liberal- Conservative Union, in late September. This autumn seems likely to witness the birth not of a unified but of a still further splintered opposition...