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...computers," she adds. The Palo Alto, Califonia-based company is so concerned about maintaining its computer operations in the case of fire, flood or earthquake that it spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually to operate a duplicate computing center in Loveland. Colorado, according to security official Bill Ashton...
...that can perform such tasks as compiling payrolls, drawing graphs and creating reports. Until now, all the personal-computer software that IBM sold was produced by other companies. IBM's new programs will compete most directly with the popular ones sold by Lotus Development of Cambridge, Mass., and Ashton-Tate of Culver City, Calif. Some experts are confident that small companies can hold their own in the software competition because they are often more inventive than IBM, which is known more for its marketing prowess than its creativity. "IBM software is not likely to be on the leading edge...
...Ashton B. Carter, research fellow at the Kennedy School, took a more positive view of the talks. He said Gromyko was making a diplomatic concession by agreeing to speak with Reagan at all. Gromyko's decision shows that the Soviets are more interested in achieving arms reduction than participating in American politics...
...greatest contribution has been to put ethnobiology on a solid scientific basis by being both an outstanding chemist and botanist," says Peter S. Ashton, Arnold Professor of Botany and director of the Arnold Arboretum, adding that Schultes has developed "an unusual level of capacity" to identify plants of potential economic interest. "He's demanding in the sense that he always wants the right answer, but he's also a very congenial person," says a Northeastern University professor of pharmacology, Robert Rattauf, who has worked with Schultes for the past 30 years...
...real story is whether the proud and cheeky Englishman is Ashok or Ashton. Cross, best remembered for his athletics in Chariots of Fire, gives a strong, unfussy performance and looks equally at home in British regimental uniform and silk dhoti. The uneasy citizen of opposing worlds continually suffers from cultural schizophrenia: "I . . . shall always be two people in one skin, which is not a comfortable thing to be." Only Anjuli can make him whole. As the Indian princess, Amy Irving is properly equipped with saris and cliches, but she looks as though she had been dipped in cocoa...