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...between $1,000 and $5 000, Apple still commands 26%, followed by IBM (17%) and Tandy/Radio Shack (10%). But IBM, which has dominated the mainframe computer market for decades, is coming on very strong. Apple, fighting back, will unveil its new Lisa model in January, putting great emphasis on user friendliness. The user will be able to carry out many functions simply by pointing to a picture of what he wants done rather than typing instructions. IBM is also reported to be planning to introduce new machines in 1983, as are Osborne and others...
...winning approval of a piece of jobs-oriented legislation that he did support: a bipartisan plan to raise the federal gasoline tax and use the revenue to finance highway and transit improvements. Unlike the Democrats, Reagan refrained from terming the proposal a "jobs bill." Instead he called it a "user's fee" and a "highway bill." This euphemistic truce enabled both parties to embrace the proposal; it was overwhelmingly approved by the House and was expected to sail through the Senate...
...increasingly even medium-size firms. But during 1982, a whole new generation of downsize "personal computers" began multiplying on the desks of small businesses as well as in homes and apartments of people across the country. Driven by rapidly declining prices and manufacturers' efforts to make the machines "user friendly," U.S. sales of the devices soared to $4.4 billion during the year, double the 1981 level...
...strong." At that, Warden Pursley gave the cue ("We are ready") to a technician hidden in the next room, and a fast-acting barbiturate came flowing through one of the IV tubes. Brooks yawned, shut his eyes and wheezed. Within minutes, Brooks, who had been a heroin user, was dead from a drug overdose meted out by the Texas department of corrections...
...Revenue Department report said municipalities cut spending by more than $107 million during the period and increased income from licenses and user fees by $174.7 million...