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...assassination has created a serious leadership vacuum in the opposition and dimmed the chances for stability after Marcos...
...first to the socioeconomic background." This is not simply a matter of economic hardship or nutritional deficiency. Says Brown's Lipsitt: "The socioeconomic index is as powerful a predictor of later intellectual prowess as any variable we've got, but it doesn't operate in a vacuum. It is a representation of the way people live and relate toward each other, and the way they behave toward babies...
...evade it. But booze and drugs only postpone unhappiness, and possessions do no better. In Anna, an impoverished young man robs a drugstore and gets away wiih a little more than $2,000. He takes his wife to a local mall for a shopping binge: color TV, stereo, albums, vacuum cleaner. Later, the money almost gone, he regrets not stealing some drugs for resale as well as the money. His wife says: "There's too much to get. There's no way we could ever get it all." He replies: "A lot of it, though. Some...
...money on the wrong horses. During the early 1950s, when a young company that was later to become known as Sony was getting excited about a new invention from the U.S. called the transistor, MITI chose to help two other firms engaged in making soon-to-be-obsolete vacuum tubes. MITI also had no say in Sony's decisions to market Betamax videocassette recorders and Walkman portable stereos, two of the company's fastest-selling products. Japan is the leading manufacturer of industrial robots, but MITI played no role in financing their development...
Traditionally, the stages in computer development have been determined by advances in the technology of the inner components of the machines. The first generation relied on vacuum tubes, the second on transistors, the third on integrated circuits and the fourth, just emerging, relies on very-large-scale integrated circuits (VLSI), with chips so compact they must be designed by another computer. The fifth generation will arrange large numbers of VLSI chips in parallel, clearing the way for dramatic breakthroughs in speed and power. More important, these computers will use their new potency not only to process mathematical data, like most...