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...innovative edge. Spending on research and development has increased from $3.6 million in 1979 to $21 million last year. The company is currently modifying the Apple II to reduce manufacturing costs and this summer will introduce a less expensive version called the Super II. It is also preparing to unveil early next year a new machine that already has the computer world abuzz. Code-named Lisa, after one of Jobs' ex-girlfriends, it is both more powerful and easier to use than Apple...
Japanese automakers unveil their latest models...
Once the new Administration was in office, the happy talk continued. When the supply-side Reaganauts were preparing to unveil their economic plan last February, they used imaginative new computer models to project what would happen when their tax cuts took effect. The results were absurdly Pollyannaish. Growth in 1982 was going to surge to 7%, while inflation would fall...
...says it himself early in the story, when confronted by two ambitious prosecutors who want to use Ciello to further their careers. "No one understands cops," Ciello screams. "No one understands us except our partners." And, alas, he is right. For all that Prince of the City pretends to unveil the world of the cop, each viewer can leave the film with his preconceptions about cops--whatever they are--entirely unaffected. In short, we don't know why Ciello does what he does, and that gap leaves Prince hollow at its core...
...Mogaill, Roary Rua, Gimp Gillespie, Old Crubog and the Englishman Potter down their Guinnesses under Roarty's suspicious eye and argue why earthworms are scarce and if a doe hare drops her kits all in one den. Roarty's bizarre attempts to unveil his blackmailer also reveal the tragicomedy of the Other Ireland. Locals fight the design of a new church-"a cube surmounted by a cone"-and investigate a blackguard who steals the priest's maid's knickers from the wash line. Without the precisely plotted mystery, this might merely be another scenic tour...