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...less than half that. Mark Wozniak, co-owner of a Sunnyvale, Calif., computer store and brother of Apple Co-Founder Stephen Wozniak, no longer even stocks the PCjr. Says he: "It was too much heartache." Last week, in an effort to spur sales and make the PCjr more compet-/0 itive, IBM cut its prices to $599 and $999. It reduced prices on its other personal computers by up to 23%. Smaller companies that make personal machines similar to IBM's may have to follow the lead, and observers predict that a nasty price war could erupt this summer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Home Is Where the Heartbreak Is | 6/18/1984 | See Source »

...gold only once, in 1934. Franklin Roosevelt's aim in raising the price of gold from $20.67 to its present $35 per oz. was to mid-Depression.*Not increase only farm did he prices in fail in that objective, but dollar devaluation furthered a chain reaction of compet itive devaluations and trade restrictions aimed at preserving jobs. One effect was to devastate world trade, which fell 57% between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Money: It Could Be Dawn | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...What has become of the good old-fashioned competitions?" asks the August Senior. "Now when I was a compet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 1/21/1922 | See Source »

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