Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...share of the calculator market is being squeezed on the high-priced end by Hewlett-Packard, while the Japanese have cornered sales of economy models. Its attempt to break into the home-computer business has been disastrous. As for digital watches, TI was unable to match the Japanese marketing blitz and abandoned the field altogether...
...pretends that a cultural blitz will gloss over South Florida's woes. Its ultimate salvation rests in its citizens' ability to unite and face the problems they have managed to avoid so long. In the past, South Florida's people have never failed to rise to the challenges that have confronted them. "It's a magic place, it always snaps back," says Mitchell Wolfson, a prominent businessman and member of one of Miami's founding families...
...other Ivy action. Princeton, with 385 total yards, smashed Cornell, 37-14. Fullback Larry Van Pelt scrambled for 118 Yards and two touchdowns and snatched a 12-yd. TD aerial from signal-caller Brent Woods to lead the Tiger blitz...
...Ohio, voters chose to continue the state's monopoly on the sale of workers' compensation insurance, rejecting a $4.3 million promotional blitz by the insurance industry. In Texas a plan that would have set aside half of the state's surplus revenues for water projects was defeated 57.4% to 42.5%, despite the backing of powerful Texas politicians. Opponents, including the League of Women Voters, teachers' groups and environmentalists, charged that the measure amounted to a blank check and circumvented normal budgetary processes...
...loans are turning out to be somewhat of a letdown. Since they became available on Oct. 1, only about $40 billion worth of the new certificates has been sold, and $15 billion of that amount rolled in during the program's first week, when banks pressed an advertising blitz promoting them. Treasury officials now estimate that total deposits over the one-time-only, 15-month life of the program may wind up no higher than $100 billion, which is far below the $250 billion originally projected by the banking industry. Says a top Treasury Department official: "Sales...