Word: 1980s
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Ironically, the price war may have strengthened U.S. computer leadership in some key markets. American firms, which feared a takeover by Japanese firms during the 1980s, have exported their cutthroat pricing to Tokyo with stunning success. Led by IBM, Dell and Compaq, U.S. companies sent shock waves through the Japanese PC establishment by trimming prices up to 30%. While Japanese domestic manufacturers, such as Fujitsu and NEC, have responded with deep discounts of their own, they have been unable to shake off the Americans, much to the delight of Japanese consumers...
...rather delicately puts it, "doing television can improve your access" to official sources. The economics are sweet for TV producers as well. They know that print journalists work cheap, are well informed and are readily available to leap into the electronic maw. Adds John McLaughlin, who in the early 1980s pioneered the food-fight format, in which print journalists engage in opinionated shouting matches: "They're also better performers...
...said to be responsible for one of the bloodiest airplane hijackings of the 1980s was shocked last week to find himself in a Washington court. Omar Mohammed Ali Rezaq had been in a Ghanaian prison when authorities put him on a plane for Lagos, setting an elaborate police operation in motion. In a deal with the U.S., Nigeria refused to let him enter the country. U.S. agents who had slipped aboard the Nigeria-bound jetliner then had him arrested. Rezaq is said to be the sole survivor among the Palestinian hijackers who seized Egypt Air Flight 648 in 1985. After...
...line. But there has seldom been an indictment of the self-absorption and self-delusion of the corporate male, both white and black, as stinging -- or hilarious -- as Jill Nelson's wildly uneven account of her four-year misadventure as a reporter for the Washington Post during the late 1980s...
Banks have a decidedly mixed record of informing their customers of inactive accounts. In the early 1980s, Mara says, the Bank of Boston once claimed, for example, that it could not find Carl Yastrzemski to tell him his account was inactive. Yastrzemski, a Hall of Fame baseball player, was widely known to spend many an afternoon in the same place: Fenway Park, where he played left field for the Boston...