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...finally made the plunge. And that may spell big changes for the industry. In the past, according to Liz Buyer, an analyst at T. Rowe Price, people put PCs in their dens primarily so they could bring work home; now they seem to be buying computers as they buy TVs -- for their entertainment value...
That puts a burden on computer manufacturers to make machines that are as easy to use as TVs. Experts say that even in a good year, as many as 10% of computers sold will be returned to stores by disgruntled customers. Judging by the lines at return desks last week, this is not a good year. "Returns will be a big deal for the first quarter," says Buyer, who points out that most of the big software companies have set aside twice as much cash as they usually do to offset returns...
Johnson said the Widener slasher had been on the department's "short list" of the 20 most wanted suspects as early as 1991. Harvard police spent more than $50,000 on expensive closed-circuit TVs and video recording equipment. Some cameras were even set up to look like books...
Johnson suggested that Womack may have known about the elaborate police surveillance system--including expensive closed-circuit TVs and video-recording equipment--set up in Widener in 1992 in an effort to stop the slashings...
Edwards was one of dozens of Harvard students who huddled around common room TVs to watch the election returns. The night offered a series of heretofore unthinkable horrors for Democratic students, and limitless good news for Republicans...