Word: tags
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Zovirax becomes available in mid-February, there will be another restraint: price. A five-day regimen of the capsules will cost from $15 to $18; the tag for six months of use will be a hefty $360. Despite the costs and the limitations as a treatment, health officials are enthusiastic about the new form of acyclovir. "It is a very useful tool," says Mary Guinan, an associate director at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "We welcome it as part of our armamentarium in our war against sexually transmitted diseases...
Going ahead with some degree of Star Wars technology research on a basic level--though at far less than the current $26 billion price tag--is reasonable given on-going Soviet interest in this field and the wholly unverifiable nature of such research. But beyond such limited, general exploration, as with all its real and imagined weapons systems, the Administration should be prepared to deal--and hopefully to start cutting into the plethora of offensive weapons that so threaten mankind...
Stores are paying more attention than ever to light-fingered crime. Spending for antitheft devices has gone up about 18% in the past year. The most popular anti-crime item is a plastic tag about the size of a pocket comb that stores are putting on everything from dresses to fur coats. The tags, which can be conveniently removed only by a special tool, set off an alarm when they pass through a sensing device that is usually located at exits. Criminals frequently try to cover up the tags with aluminum foil to fool the detection machines, or even bite...
...biggest flops in the history of computing. Despite IBM's towering prestige and a marketing budget estimated at $40 million, the PCjr sold as sluggishly as Edsels in the late 1950s. Consumers seemed to be turned off by the computer's toylike appearance and $1,269 price tag. Dealers, stuck with growing inventories of unsold machines, were beginning to panic. Wrote Popular Computing Columnist Steven Levy: "The machine has the smell of death about...
...includes no commencement speeches, letters to the Times, book reviews or similar lint balls in this between-books collection. Instead, the author of Ragtime and Loon Lake offers six short stories, impeccably done, rather academic, mostly forgettable, and one 65-page mishmash called, for want of an accurate tag, a novella. The mishmash, surprisingly enough, is a delight, largely because it knits up all that has gone before...