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...they welcome innovations that might stray from their control. While the Soviets have been able to produce some large, sophisticated computers, the smaller machines found in so many plants, offices and homes in the West are unavailable. Communist ideology is partly responsible. Proliferation of computers for private use would mean the rapid circulation of information, and that is not something the Kremlin particularly wants to encourage. Nonetheless, the Soviets are reportedly looking to buy large numbers of Western-made personal computers, apparently for use in schools and scientific institutions...
...takeover artists play the role of sharks in the corporate sea, then risk arbitragers are the pilot fish who follow along and gobble up the stray morsels. What multimillion-dollar morsels these are, though. Arbitrage is the business of making profits from the price discrepancies that often turn up in financial markets. In takeover struggles, acquiring companies offer to pay more than the market price to ensure that stockholders will turn over their shares. When the so-called arbs see corporate raiders on the prowl, they buy blocks of the target firm's stock while the price is still...
...appalling effort; but the significance and meaning of the gestures get lost. He flutters, jiggles, shakes, undulates and climbs--but why? His face conveys amazement, wonder, triumph, haughtiness in a way that is amusing but confusing. During these skits, a viewer's mind can't help but stray to the question of how much Marceau must pay his doubtlessly-busy masseur...
...gate. Its members simply ambled in on Sunday, Jan. 20, two hours before they were scheduled to serenade President Reagan at his private Inauguration ceremony upstairs. If only they had arrived in hup-two-three-four formation, Presidential Spokesman Larry Speakes suggested last week, guards might have spotted the stray tourist tagging along with the Marines. "Had he been out of step," Speakes said with a smile, "they would have caught him earlier...
Akalaitis last night defended the right of directors to stray from absolutely faithful performances of the text. "The most boring production of Beckett was directed by Beckett," she said in a wide ranging impromptu discussion...