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“The Public Cryptography Study Group has given the National
Security Agency what it wants: a recommendation that research on
secret codes be screened by the NSA before publication.”
—Robert Poole, “Editor’s Notes”
“Richard Pryor has a real comic flair, and in Stir Crazy he
plays a kind of cross between the Good Soldier Schweik and the
loser-with-an-instinct-for-survival who starred in Seven
Beauties.”
—John Hospers, “Movies”
“Great Britain’s once-promising experiment with enterprise zones
is a flop.…By the time the plan wended its way through the
bureaucracy, all that remained of the deregulation was a minor
reduction in some local zoning requirements and some tax
reductions, for up to 10 years.”
—“Trends”
“Better Homes & Gardens and Robotics Age can be sent via
home computers. Now you can see how it’s only natural that, once Ma
Bell gets involved in computers for switching, she would also want
to get involved in computers for word and data processing.”
—William J. Bahr, “Dial ‘D’ for Deregulation”
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