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...decision to abandon SelectaVision comes just as disc-player sales seemed to switch into fast-forward. After producing some 250,000 SelectaVision sets last year, the company was selling them during the past month at the rate of 400,000 a year. Company executives, though, figured that they would need to produce three or four times that many to make a sufficient profit. Only about 12,000 SelectaVisions remain in stock at RCA's Bloomington, Ind., plant, but wholesalers and dealers have about 150,000 left...
Wise's first task in writing his program was to create the objects displayed on the screen. These are actually just patterns of colored dots, with each dot controlled by an individual on-off switch. Wise sketched the images on an electronic drawing
While refraining from condemning Marcos, Washington too has conspicuously refused to condone him. Instead, it has quietly signaled its displeasure with the regime. Only last week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted to switch from military to economic aid $30 million of the $180 million the U.S. plans to pay annually for continued use of military bases in the strategically important islands. The committee also added a rider to the foreign aid bill, linking future funds to the findings of the commission that is investigating Aquino's death...
...have won some 300 delegates last week to Hart's 245. Overall, the rough unofficial count as of Saturday night was Mondale, 458 of the 1,967 delegates needed to nominate; Hart, 289; uncommitted or pledged to other candidates, 314. But delegates this year are free to switch their votes up to or even at the convention...
...market coincided with a 1979 drought in the Golden Triangle, the mountainous region where Burma, Thailand and Laos meet. The area has long produced much of the world's supply of poppies, from which opium and heroin are derived. The resulting rise in prices only accelerated the switch to cocaine...