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Tipper Gore hasn't even figured out how to set the clock; she finally had to cover it with black masking tape to hide the relentless blinking -- 12:00/12:00/12:00 -- that is the unmistakable sign of a VCR illiterate. Barbara Walters has three VCRs and can't program any of them. "I'm reduced to asking friends to tape for me," she says. "I am deeply ashamed...
...probably respond to commands that are spoken or scribbled as well as typed. Families will gather around TV sets with big, high-definition screens and a large menu of interactive options. After a few decades, those familiar forms will blend together and begin to lose their distinct identities. TVs, vcrs, CD players, computers, telephones, video games, newspapers and mail-order catalogs will merge to create new products and services that can only be dimly imagined today...
...registers of grocery and shoe stores and insurance agencies in the communities where the workers live. Corn growers bring more than $6 billion of cash into the country, scientific-instrument makers more than $12 billion. Contrary to the protectionist shibboleths, imports benefit the country as well: from cars to vcrs, the American consumer saves money because of cheaper products shipped from overseas...
...imitating those approaches, Australians are only acknowledging the powerful pull of economic gravity. Most CD players, VCRS and electronic goods in use today are made in Asia. According to Sandhu, by the year 2000, Asia's gross national product is expected to match Europe's; this year Hong Kong's gnp per capita will pass New Zealand's. Nine out of the 10 fastest-growing economies last year, including South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand, were Asian. Taiwan now has foreign currency reserves equal to more than two-thirds of Australia's $145 billion foreign debt...
NETWORK TV IS A NOTORIOUSLY TROUBLED business, with cable, VCRs and other rivals steadily wooing away viewers. But that doesn't mean one of the Big Three can't still pop a champagne cork every spring. This year's celebrator: CBS, first in prime-time ratings for the 1991-92 season. The network drew an average 13.8 rating for the 30-week period, comfortably ahead of NBC, at 12.3, and ABC, at 12.2. It was an especially satisfying victory for CBS, which has been in third place for the past four seasons; no other network has jumped from worst...