Word: brands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Choosing a System. Long just a corporate abstraction, three-year-old Comsat is a brand-new company in a brand-new field. It not only has the unprecedented job of orbiting three to 18 satellites by 1967, but has had to negotiate with 45 foreign powers to persuade them to join the system. The U.S. Government estimates that by 1980 more than 78% of all international communications, including telephone, telegraph, television, data transmission and perhaps facsimile newspapers, will be carried by satellites. Comsat will be the prime carrier, the wholesaler of satellite communications...
Because computer technology is so new and computers require such sensitive handling, a new breed of specialists has grown up to tend the machines. They are young, bright, well-paid (up to $30,000) and in short supply. With brand-new titles and responsibilities, they have formed themselves into a sort of solemn priesthood of the computer, purposely separated from ordinary laymen. Lovers of problem solving, they are apt to play chess at lunch or doodle in algebra over cocktails, speak an esoteric language that some suspect is just their way of mystifying outsiders. Deeply concerned about logic and sensitive...
...Three characters on a suspension bridge, suffering garrulously from every known brand of self-pity. Theater of the absurd? Certainly, but the flawless comic acting talents of Anne Jackson, Alan Arkin and Eli Wallach make it hilarious...
...France. "The government asked me to take it before the Americans did," says Mantelet, "but I refused." Scovill will not attempt to match Moulinex prices; it believes instead that the French are ready to trade up. Mantelet is betting that the majority of French housewives will continue to choose Brand...
...Harvard sophomores, in an attempt to express commercially the view taken by the Surgeon General on cigarette smoking, have produced their own brand of weeds. They call them "Kiss of Death" cigarettes...