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...along. Equally luckily, "the wrath of Khan" has been bottled up out there in the galaxy, steeping in its own malevolence, just waiting for someone to pull the cork. It happens that Khan, played by Ricardo Montalban, who appears delighted to send his dinner jacket to the cleaners and slip into something scruffy, blames Kirk for all his troubles. It seems the captain marooned him, his family and crew on a forbidding planet 15 years earlier. Now he decides to invade the space platform where Kirk's scientist son and his scientist mother are engaged in good works, creating...
...their homework the way the Japanese are. The Americans feel they know the answers. It's an extremely serious situation." A little more than a decade ago, many U.S. executives in the automobile and consumer electronics industries dismissed the Japanese competition-and then saw their markets begin to slip away...
...Pink slip for the boss...
...just got careless and let it slip away," Coach Carole Kleinfelder said of the part of the Ivy Crown that now belongs to the Quakers...
...pull it off, duplicators simply hook a couple of devices called disc drives to their microcomputers, then slip the disc containing the program they covet into one drive and a blank disc into the other. Machines can then read the contents of the programmed disc and write them onto the blank. Manufacturers, of course, have tried to prevent this, usually by scrambling the information in such a way that a straightforward reading of the disc will either generate garbage or erase the program. One way around that is a burglary tool called Locksmith. Designed to permit computer owners to make...