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...industrial sectors targeted last January by Reagan and Nakasone for intense trade review (the other three: electronics, forest products, and pharmaceuticals and medical equipment). Though the presidential envoys may have convinced Nakasone that further movement is necessary, so far U.S. negotiators have made only limited progress in penetrating the thicket of rules and regulations that have effectively denied U.S. manufacturers access to the Japanese telecommunications market. Tokyo reduced the number of technical standards that telephone equipment must meet from 53 to 30, for example, but these still include many features, like the quality of voice transmission, that the U.S. leaves...
Ferraro sat before a thicket of microphones, three dozen TV cameras and 200 insistent reporters in a hotel ballroom near Kennedy Airport, ready for one of the memorable political press conferences of modern times. The questions, about her family finances and personal ethics, were complicated and often barbed, yet she managed to seem neither combative nor defensive. Her manner was precise and serious, but relaxed and good-humored too. Her answers were lucid and carefully organized, anecdotal and unpretentious. In North Oaks, Mondale stared at the TV image of his running mate, transfixed by her grace under extraordinary pressure...
Most editors, it seems, now agree with Safire's argument that "it is unacceptable for journalists to dictate to a candidate that she call herself Miss or else use her married name." One way out of this thicket of titles would be for the Times simply to drop the use of honorifics altogether. But that course of action was rejected by News Editor Allan M. Siegal last week. Said he: "Everybody feels, I think unanimously, that that wouldn't sound like the New York Times...
Trade has been stifled within the ten-nation Community by a thicket of visible and not so visible barriers, like preferential government buying, which were erected to protect national industries. For example, Western Europe has nine different telecommunications switching systems. Says a senior Community trade official: "You can imagine what would have happened to Apple Computer if it had to fight such barriers in different American states." Economists estimate that Western Europe's patchwork of safety, design and technical standards represents the equivalent of an 8% to 12% tariff on all goods traded within the Community...
Many retailers are impressed with the manual for Apple's new Macintosh computer. Designed to be used with tapes and video displays, it guides Macintosh owners gently through a technological thicket. Says Chris Espinosa, 22, an eight-year Apple veteran who supervised the booklet's preparation: "A good manual is not a narrative; it is an outline or report. Nobody ever reads a manual cover to cover-only mutants do that...