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...serpents, however, have begun to crawl into northern California's economic Garden of Eden. Though renowned for their liberal personnel policies, some Silicon Valley employers are under attack for their treatment of hourly production workers. Assembling circuit boards or inspecting chips is a tedious dead-end job that has attracted thousands of Mexicans, Filipinos and Vietnamese immigrants. Many earn wages of less than $5 an hour, low by industry standards...
...eyes of the state. In other cases, partners now want to end mercenary marriages, contracted simply to get a good flat and the furniture coupons that go to married couples. Or they may simply want to get a job and get back to the city from a tedious as signment on a remote farm...
Sloganeering won't help. Nor will tedious or evasive rhetoric. Tough talk, task forces, and fiscal abracadabra are poor substitutes for aggressive proposals, and they're self-defeating...
...effects in the industry are Intellivision's. The most rousing sight in home video is the between-innings sequence of Intellivision's Baseball, in which, to the sound of cheers, one team trots in to the bench and the other sprints out to the field. The game soon becomes tedious, however, partly because of awkward hand controls (which hamper a good skiing cartridge) and partly because not enough of baseball's delightful complications are programmed in. It is not possible to catch a fly ball. A Poker and Blackjack cassette is fun to see once, but poor in concept, since...
...sized terrorists back and forth across the campus, back and forth,back and forth until he is absolutely sure that we see them as soldiers, not as kids. There is endless dialogue about honor and Bache's honor and honoring Bache, as the film deteriorates into a series of tedious confrontations: alarmed parents and stubborn offspring, level-headed National Guard colonel and misguided rebel leader, misguided rebel leader and cynical best friend. The relationships are obvious; piled one on top of another, they become an unwieldy burden on the journey to a predictable conclusion...