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...competition, plus new technology that allows more information to be carried more efficiently, will lead to a bountiful array of new uses for telephones and telephone lines (see box). Says James Martin, author of The Wired Society: "Deregulation of the U.S. telecommunications industry will stimulate our imaginations. It will briefly raise the cost of telephone service, but in the end we'll all profit from a revamping of the system." With any luck, as a result of deregulation, the world's best telephone system could become even better. -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Bruce van Voorst/New York...
Greene did not immediately accept their deal. Meticulously, he read 8,000 pages of comments and interviewed 600 witnesses. Among those who spoke out in opposition to the breakup was Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, who said that dealing with an array of companies could threaten national defense and drive up communications costs. Greene also reviewed 25,000 pages of trial transcripts. Many months passed, with Greene raising objections along the way, continually shaping and modifying the parts that were now to be independent. In August 1983, Greene gave final approval to the divestiture agreement...
...Stories of William Trevor will surely establish Trevor as one of the most masterful post-War practitioners of the genre. These 800 pages contain a formidable array of stories--stories which delve into the comic and tragic interiors of ordinary lives, revealing an extraordinary subtlety of observation and perception. No peripheral backwater of society no commonplace experience is too mundane to attract the sympathetic interest of this writer. Just as bleak, hollow cocoons of loneliness make up much of Philip Larkin's poetry, is unglamorous, unremarkable lives which are the raw materials of Trevor's prose. But far from being...
...actors who give the production any shape, in fact, are the ones who move beyond their lines to create characters in 3-D. Sven Krogius brings a bizarre array of mannerisms to the pivotal Judge Brack, the only personality stronger than Hedda's, and the only one who can wrest the plot out of her control. Tall and gaunt, Krogius speaks in a sneering whine and lopes through the generally imaginative blocking with enthusiasm. His malevolence becomes the production's dominant force, which unbalances things but at least raises the excitement level...
...originality in IBM's PC has hardly been a drawback. The company deliberately made the computer's specifications widely available so that the machine could become the industry standard. That tactic has worked so well that PC users are now able to choose from a vast array of programs that run on the machines. Says David Wagman, chairman of Softsel, a Los Angeles software distributor: "The change has been overwhelming. Eighteen months ago, 85% of the software we saw was for Apple and 5% for IBM. Now 29% is for IBM and 26% for Apple...