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...chastened. But one of Reagan's strengths is that at such moments, he has an extraordinary control of his temper. Common sense crowds out darker impulses, and after eating crow for half an hour on prime time, the President -- and the country -- mercifully moved on. Now, like his predecessor, Reagan is learning that moving the fleet and grimacing on television have little effect on a fanatic...
...that moment, a new era of high-speed computing began. The Cray-2 has the world's largest internal memory capacity (2 billion bytes) and a top speed of 1.2 billion FLOPS (floating point, or arithmetical, operations per second), six to twelve times faster than its predecessor, the Cray-1, and 40,000 to 50,000 times faster than a personal computer. It outdistances the world's half-dozen other supercomputers -- machines specially designed to carry out vast numbers of repetitive calculations at incredible speeds -- and is expected to make short work of problems that have vexed scientists and engineers...
...Speaker cannot and should not resort to the ways of his predecessor. The fear that representatives will not speak their minds if the press is present at the caucus meetings is groundless. There is always internal communication, but most important sometimes politicians must and should he encouraged to speak their minds. At least the public will then understand the choices being made--information to which it has a right...
...been to force heads of government, especially the American President, to brief themselves on details of trade, currency and interest-rate problems that they might otherwise neglect and to make an effort to gauge what impact their economic policies have on other countries. West German Chancellor Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, in an often quoted reflection on the eight summits he attended, said that "they did not bring about much, but what they avoided was of enormous importance." At every summit, for example, the seven leaders renew what amounts to a ritual vow to uphold free trade and shun...
...despite Sudduth's evaluation of his boat's new lineup as a bit less smooth "but probably a little more aggressive" than its predecessor-"Andy's a pretty aggressive stroke," Parker understates the boat has looked good all season, in whatever combination...