Word: adamancy
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shakeout is most severe in the home computer business, where price competition has been fierce. Coleco slashed the cost of its Adam computer from $750 to $500 last year in an unsuccessful effort to spur sales. In January the company decided to drop the Adam altogether after suffering a 1984 loss of $259 million on the machine. Commodore lost $20.8 million in the first three months of this year, partly because it reduced the basic price of its model 64 by 25%, to $145. And even IBM two months ago halted production of the PCjr, which had sold poorly with...
...coach at the end of the '82 campaign, McCurdy has been spending time with his wife Virginia at their home in Harvard, Mass. In his own words, he has been "developing an innate talent at being busy doing nothing." He also has continued to coach former Crimson track standout Adam Dixon...
...Forum's problems can be located at their source with a look at the editorial board: of eleven editors, nine are men--including those holding all five of the most important positions--and your live in Adam's House; I am also aware that groups like that tend to be self-selecting, not a conspiracy to keep other types out of power. However, it is not a coincidence that a relatively homogeneous board has produced a very homogenized magazine...
Through much of her career, the author of Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss and Middlemarch commanded great critical and public esteem. But her reputation began to decline with the new century until the epochal year 1933. It was then that a young American instructor named Gordon Haight came across a cache of Eliot letters in the Yale University Library. For the next 50 years Haight devoted himself to the correspondence. He became the general editor of the definitive Clarendon Edition of Eliot's novels and, in 1968, produced a fine, now standard biography. Haight's crowning achievement...
...Skipping over the Judgement of Paris and the tale of the wooden horse--two eminently more interesting anecdotes from the Trojan War--Shakespeare begins his story seven years into the conflict when armed engagement has reached a standstill. Both armies entrench while their respective leaders reconsider their strategies. Ulysses (Adam Smith Albion), a sort of Greek Henry Kissinger, formulates a plan which will serve the dual purpose of reanimating the Greeks best fighter, the now lazy and spaced-out Achilles (Patrick Bradford), as well as do away with the Trojan he-man Hector (Maja Hellmold...