Word: colorful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...response to American TV manufacturers' demands for high tariffs on Japanese imports, I would say this: if Japan can build color TV sets, pay shipping costs and whatever duties or tariffs currently being imposed, and still put a quality product on the U.S. market at a competitive price, then we here have a good deal to learn about manufacturing and marketing...
...always been a threat as well as a promise. It entices the winter-weary by flaunting balmy temperatures, azure skies and buds bursting into blazing color. Children break out their bicycles, college students recline and pretend to study on the mall, and Americans of all ages tilt pale faces to catch the first warming rays...
...owners of Tokyo-based Sony Corp.'s Betamax video-tape record-and-playback system (price: $1,300 list, about $1,000 at discount). The Betamax, which can be attached to any TV, records on a $16 cartridge one hour's worth of color (or black and white) programming-either off a channel being watched or another channel. So watch what you please, go out when you like-setting the handy timer-and replay at your leisure the shows you loved or you missed. Terrific...
...Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Sony is pushing Betamax hard and hopes to have a million units in U.S. homes by decade's end. Zenith will begin selling Sony systems under its own label next fall, and RCA will be marketing a Matsushita-built system by then too. If color TVs and pocket calculators are valid precedents, the price of video-tape units should fall fast. Even if Universal and Disney win a final verdict in, say, 1980, there may be so many machines and tapes in American living rooms that enforcing the decision would be a practical impossibility...
...show that execution for rape was based on race. Before the Civil War, Georgia law was typical of Southern statutes in specifying that a white man raping a black woman could draw a fine or imprisonment "at the discretion of the court," while a slave or "free person of color" even attempting to rape a white woman could be put to death. Supposedly color-blind postwar laws were selectively enforced: since 1930, when accurate record keeping was started, 89% of the 455 rapists executed in the U.S. have been black...