Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Finally, I hope that the Council will never again be forced to adjourn without completing its agenda and hope that pressure by constituents and the passage of this amendment, which should be reintroduced on April 8, will lead us back on the right track. Adam J. Augustynski...
...services and convince ourselves that probably everything is going to be all right. Manufacturing is the base that creates many of those services." For U.S. manufacturing, investors, politicians and plain citizens, that is an important nuts-and-bolts lesson. -By John S. DeMott. Reported by Paul A. Witteman/Detroit and Adam Zagorin/New York
...another combine of the size of the Gulf-Socal deal. But as long as the price of oil shares remains cheap compared with exploration costs, merger fever in the oil industry will be far from burned out. -By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Richard Woodbury/San Francisco and Adam Zagorin/New York
...planned invasion was as bold as any in a Coleco Industries video game. The strategy called for Coleco to blast its way into the home-computer market with Adam, a complete system that sold for just $600. But the Adam onslaught never really got rolling. During 1983 production problems forced Coleco to manufacture less than 20% of the 500,000 computers it had planned. Last week the firm revealed that Adam is causing a hemorrhage of cash. Coleco reported a $35 million loss for the fourth quarter of 1983, against a profit of $15.4 million during the same period...
Executives of the West Hartford, Conn., company had expected the Adam to be a hot seller, but quality defects have chilled sales and caused customers to return up to 30% of the computers. And while Coleco's Cabbage Patch Kids remain a huge hit, some analysts now believe that the firm will have to discontinue Adam in order to stem its losses...