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...silicon chips of high technology. Railroads are the third-biggest private users of computers, after airlines and banks. At Burlington Northern operations headquarters, a battery of terminals has replaced a 65-ft. wall display that was formerly used for monitoring the whereabouts of locomotives. Southern Pacific, which developed the Sprint long-distance telephone service and sold it in 1983 to GTE for $740 million, is currently developing another advanced communications system. In a venture with Santa Fe and Norfolk Southern, the company is creating a coast-to-coast fiber-optics network called Fibertrak that can simultaneously carry 300,000 voice...
...Hyundai officials, who have code named it the X car. It will be unveiled in March and is expected to sell for as little as $5,000. That would make it cheaper than the Japanese-made Suzuki (base price: $5,151), a mini sold by Chevrolet as the Sprint in nine Western states and the lowest-priced car in America. The larger car, the Stellar, will begin at $7,000. Hyundai intends to begin assaulting the American market in California, where the Japanese also started...
...break up into eight pieces: a shrunken AT&T, which kept its long-distance network, and seven regional companies to provide local service. The immediate results of the split were increased competition and confusion. Long-distance rates fell by 6% as AT&T battled with MCI Communications, GTE Sprint and other rivals. At the same time, though, the average cost of local service rose by 8%. Customers were befuddled by multipage bills, bewildered about whom to call for repairs and bedeviled by delays in the installation of new telephone lines. Said Jack Reiss, 83, a retired salesman in Harrisburg...
Bricklin is pointing his latest venture at the same bargain-minded crowd that snapped up the Volkswagen Beetle in the 1960s. At 11 ft. 51½ in. in length, the Yugo is 3½ in. shorter than the Japanese-built Chevrolet Sprint, currently the smallest new car available in the U.S., and will cost $1,161 less. Likely customers: students and families who might otherwise buy a used...
...political groups were sharing the spotlight with the New Democratic Party's Edward Broadbent, who has placed a distant third in the polls. With little to lose, Broadbent was the most relaxed of the contenders. But for the two photogenic front runners, it was the start of a sprint to the finish for the national elections that will be held on Sept...