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...biggest one-day box office in history ($6.2 million). Other surefire sequels: the 13th James Bond film, Superman III and Staying Alive, the follow-up to Saturday Night Fever. Says William Nix, who heads the antipiracy division of the Motion Picture Association of America: "These films have built-in demand for illegal copies. The damage could be the worst ever...
...persuaded by practitioners of Transcendental Meditation to study the effects of the technique on the body. To his surprise, Benson found that TM could elicit dramatic physiological changes, including decreased heart rate, lower blood pressure and reduced oxygen consumption. Meditation, says Benson, sets off "a built-in mechanism that is the opposite of the fight-or-flight response." Practiced ten to 20 minutes once or twice daily, it has been shown, by Benson and others, to produce a lasting reduction in blood pressure and other stress-related symptoms. Thus it is a natural antidote to tension...
...Pittsburgh's U:S. Steel Corp. had supplied high-pressure air flasks for Trident submarines under contracts that carried built-in profits of between 27% and 38%, according to both Rickover...
...Preprofessionalism has been Penn's personality for a long time--excellent preprofessional preparation," explains university president Sheldon Hackney, adding that the challenge now is to combine that with a strong liberal arts education. "The opportunity to do that is better here than anywhere else," Hackney says, "because we have built-in mechanisms for student-faculty interaction across the schools and across disciplinary barriers...
...retrieves, adds, updates, prints and refiles information stored within a computer. Says Software Publishing President Fred Gibbons: "We've modeled it something like a card file." Basically, PFS and other listmaking programs are souped-up electronic Rolodexes with built-in cross-reference capabilities. Having stored his trivia on an AppleIIe, Baseball Card Collector Louis Musher, 13, of New York City can call up such arcana as the names of all Montreal Expo catchers who batted .250 or better in 1980. In Sun City, Ariz., Vinton Ostrander, 76, is using his Franklin Ace computer to record the genealogy of some...