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...index of 30 high-tech companies have climbed about 22%. Cashing in on that market strength, Microsoft, the second-largest independent manufacturer of computer software (1985 revenues: $163 million), announced last week that it will make an initial public offering of 2.5 million shares in March. The Bellevue, Wash., company hopes to garner $16 to $19 for each share. Microsoft may serve as a bellwether of the high-tech recovery. Says Michael Murphy, editor of the California letter: "If Microsoft can successfully go public, it will probably open up the window for a lot of technology companies...
...know, it's a real crime to be paid for a job that I have so much fun doing." For all his accomplishments in the skies, however, Scobee was scrupulously modest. "He just wasn't one to sound off on his own," said a friend, Bill Almon of Yakima, Wash. But once the conversation turned to space, Almon added, "you could see the gleam in his eye, and he would want to talk about...
There is only one drink that can wash away thetaste of bitter defeat: sweet revenge...
...opening scenes, we see her giving birth to a child by her father and being married off to a man she doesn't know. This is pretty horrible stuff, especially for a sixteen-year-old, but some of the disgust we are meant to feel is lost among the wash of color and high quality production. Unable to communicate subtly the extent of the father's shortcomings, Spielberg is forced to rely on a line from the script in which father tells daughter to "hurry up" while she's in labor...
...time to wash my hands...