Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...today's stereo systems. The players use beams of light, rather than needles, to play 4.7-in. silvery discs. Sony last year sold 150,000, or half, of all the CDs purchased in Japan, for prices starting at $495. Sony's two new downsize Walkmans, only slightly bigger than a pack of cigarettes and priced at $99.95 and $129.95, are already hot sellers in the U.S. Another potential hit for Sony is its 3.5-in. micro-floppy-disc drive for personal computers, which can store a megabyte, or 1 million characters of information. Hewlett-Packard already includes...
...damage to agriculture was more serious. In Texas, 3,500 growers of Valencia oranges and Ruby Red grapefruit are rushing to pick and process their fruit for juice. Their losses could total $50 million nonetheless, and the trees may be seriously damaged. Nowhere are the economic stakes bigger than in Florida, where 75% of U.S. citrus fruit is grown. It is believed that a quarter of the nearly ripe crop, worth about $250 million, was wrecked by temperatures as low as 16°. "It was just like Pearl Harbor," says Everett Fischer, general manager of Winter Garden Citrus Growers...
...firms are passing along the good times in the form of higher bonuses. About 60% of the corporations surveyed by Prentice-Hall publishers plan this year to give some type of year-end premium, ranging from cash to food baskets. About one-third of the companies will give a bigger present than last year...
...employees for two weeks' extra pay, just in time for Christmas shopping. To qualify, employees needed at least six months on the job. The total bonus came to $49 million, up slightly from last year. Said Spokeswoman Karen Jervais: "Keeping costs down and profits up means bigger bonuses. If employees work really hard, they are going to share in the success of the company...
...resounding voice reinforces her naive struggle against the establishment. Silkwood is not an enjoyable movie but is instead painful, especially during the scenes preceding Kevin's death. But on the other hand it plunges into the lives of Karen Silkwood and her friends without sensationalizing the struggle against bigger and more powerful foes. The poignant acting and cinematography make the film flow gently towards its graveyard end, while it is the actual story of Silkwood's life that leaves the deepest impression...