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...first giant U.S. industrial corporation to attempt so broad an experiment with personal computers. For many executives around the country, the desktop device is little more than an expensive paperweight. The reason is that they spend much of their time on supervisory or policymaking tasks. They depend on subordinates to perform the kind of data manipulation and word processing that computers do best. So while computers are commonplace at lower corporate levels, they are not routinely used in the executive suite at such companies as Exxon, General Motors and Du Pont...
...response to President Reagan's interim proposal, which calls for an unspecified reduction of proposed U.S. missiles in exchange for a cut in the number of existing Soviet SS-20s. But Andropov laid out the Soviet posture so loosely that any real assessment will have to depend on how Soviet negotiators fill in the blanks at Geneva. Some of the ambiguities...
...which calls for breaking with both the Republicans and the Democrats. The one thing that they really cannot stand is people, like the Spartacist League, who say what they believe at all times, and who mean what they say. It hurts their relationships with the politicians on whom they depend who will not tolerate revolutionary slogans of any kind...
...biggest winner in the settlement could be the city of Peoria (pop. 125,000), whose residents depend on Caterpillar for one out of every five jobs. Recession and the slumping farm economy had pushed Peoria's unemployment rate to 19.2% before the walkout, and the strike sent it to more than 40%. A wave of corporate defections has compounded the city's problems. Pabst Brewing and Hiram Walker have pulled out of the central-Illinois community in the past two years. Now Caterpillar paychecks will pump badly needed money back into the city and help sales of cars...
...with maybe three to four times its population outside the country. They still leave and they still come home to the island, each time having to spend a day in Trinidad or Barbados waiting for an air shuttle. Their food-export market to the other, more developed islands will depend on larger planes being able to fly from Grenada. The Grenadians have been asking for this airport for almost 25 years, and the Cubans finally gave it to them. "The one mistake Reagan made was to interfere with the one project he should never touch," commented Bishop...