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...project, called Zenith Star, has never produced a laser beam, let alone a deadly one. The laser generator, which is being developed separately by TRW at an estimated cost of almost $100 million, has been plagued by problems and budget cuts over the past two years. Chemical lasers are widely discredited by scientists, who are dubious about the prospects for turning them into weapons. Moreover, they may never be tested in space because of restrictions imposed by international arms agreements. The aluminum-foil- covered model that Reagan so proudly inspected is, in the words of John Pike of the Federation...
...Zenith Star stands as a symbol for the ailments besetting the entire Star Wars program. Slowed by development problems and weakened by funding cuts, SDI is a far cry from achieving Reagan's four-year-old dream of a system that could "intercept and destroy" all incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles...
...subsidiaries was caught making illegal sales of high-tech equipment to the Soviet Union, Japan's Toshiba last week suffered the first major blow to its bottom line. The Pentagon spurned Toshiba and awarded a $104 million contract for 90,000 laptop computers to rival bidder Zenith Electronics. The Glenview, Ill., company, which is already a large Government supplier, might have won the contract anyway, but Toshiba's new notoriety nullified whatever chance the Japanese company...
...many of those dollars are personal computing's Front Four: IBM (which had a 26% slice of last year's market), Apple (which had 8%), Tandy (5%) and Compaq (3%). The remaining 58% of the world market has been carved up by about 150 other firms, including AT& T, Zenith and Commodore in the U.S., Japanese firms like NEC and Toshiba and South Korea's Daewoo and Hyundai. Although the growth of IBM's sales has been inhibited by the hordes of competitors, Apple, Tandy and Compaq have seen sales, earnings or stock prices surge in recent weeks...
...year ago, the star of James A. (for Addison) Baker III was at its zenith. Standing at Ronald Reagan's side in Tokyo, the 67th U.S. Treasury Secretary helped forge an agreement at the annual summit meeting for improved international economic cooperation. While Baker was accomplishing that feat, his aides in Washington were midwifing a tax bill in the U.S. Senate that became the basis for the most dramatic tax reform in more than 30 years...