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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...them, with 47 Christmas trees, 54,000 lights and 50 wreaths. Pastry impresario Hans Raffert will produce 120,000 cakes and cookies; gardener Irv Williams has festooned the North Portico with a quarter-mile of Lycopodium garland and gathered more than 300 poinsettias for inside. Forty-four groups of bell ringers, carolers and other musicians are heading for Washington...
...ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BAD TASTE by Jane and Michael Stern (HarperCollins; $29.99). If it weren't for bad taste, most people wouldn't have any taste at all. That seems to be the thesis of this arch and witty catalog of American kitsch. A sampler: Nehru jackets, vanity license plates, bell-bottoms. The authors treat their subject with affection and condescension; in other words, they are tasteful about bad taste...
...company had invented the transistor, the basic building block of modern computers, and it had built the nation's telephone system, which is essentially one vast computer network. Industry analysts predicted that AT&T one day would even challenge IBM for market supremacy. The government, which had barred Ma Bell from the business until the phone monopoly was broken in 1984, fretted that it might be opening the way for the giant (1989 revenues: $36.11 billion) to dominate the computer industry. But instead of conquering the market, AT&T has suffered one humiliating defeat after another, racking up huge losses...
...abysmal showing in computers so far is somewhat baffling. Its scientists at Bell Laboratories have been on the leading edge of computing, playing a key role in developing such technology as the microprocessor. But the company has failed to convert high science into financial success. Its first commercial computers, a series of midsize machines called 3Bs, flopped largely because, at up to $100,000, they were overpriced. The company later formed joint ventures with Convergent Technologies and Italy's Olivetti to make personal computers under the AT&T brand. It also formed a partnership with Sun and made a number...
...bombs, artillery shells and rockets. The 31 Cardoen engineers who were working on the project have returned to Chile; it is not clear when, if ever, Cardoen will be paid. Cardoen also suffered a blow when U.S. officials refused to certify as airworthy his military adaptation of the Bell 206 helicopter, a move he attributes to "political reasons...