Word: todays
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...nighter to meet a deadline. As TIME's Business editor for three years, Charles Alexander says he was "notorious for staying at work all night and grabbing a few hours of sleep in my office." His record: 78 hours on the job with 13 hours of intermittent naps. Today, as Sciences editor, Alexander enjoys more regular hours, but his new office still has a couch, just in case...
...perhaps, fatally. For it rediscovers its best self, its high romantic spirit, in time for a well-judged ending -- renunciations and not completely quashed yearnings all nicely mixed up. At its least, Havana reminds us how infrequently movies today invoke the romantic spirit. At its height, it satisfies our longing to experience that spirit anew. Put it this way: we can stand more than one Casablanca every 48 years...
...approached NCR in 1988, but the response was the same as today's: no, thanks. NCR only recently revamped its product line, shifting from computers using its own software system to machines that run Unix and DOS. "We didn't want AT&T's computer mess dumped on us then, and we don't want it now," says Charles Exley, NCR's chief executive. In discussions last week with AT&T's chief executive, Robert Allen, Exley warned of the history of failed computer marriages, such as Sperry and Burroughs or IBM and Rolm: "The industry graveyard is littered with...
...millions of people with polio would exceed all the funds that have been spent by the NIH in the past 30 years. In 1955 essentially all children who developed acute leukemia died quickly with an enormous amount of suffering because of infections, because of anemia, because of bleeding tendencies. Today 70% of all children with acute leukemia are cured by combined chemotherapy programs. It is the best success story in the war on cancer that we have...
...right size shoes. Often the latest styles and fashions are not offered at outlets, and there may be a limited selection of sizes. Nor is getting a bargain guaranteed. Prices have edged up as yesteryear's bare-bones outlet stores full of seconds and irregulars have given way to today's fancy discount malls full of first-quality goods. "You need a good eye or you can still get ripped off," observes Mark Trainor, an Austin computer salesman browsing for clothes at San Marcos Factory Shops, one of two outlet malls off the interstate highway between San Antonio and Austin...