Word: consumerized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A. I respond very simply: the networks can show what they want to show. The advertiser can sponsor what he wants to sponsor. And the consumer can spend his money where he wants to. What the implication is there is that I must spend my money with these companies to...
As they have been throughout most of postwar U.S. history, the British were the largest investors last year, plunking down $21.5 billion. In second place were the Japanese ($14.2 billion), ahead of the Canadians ($10.4 billion). U.S. firms have been popular targets partly because of the steady growth of the...
Some pundits who believe Japan is failing to make quick enough progress suggest that the country will need far more pressure from the outside. James Fallows, author of More Like Us: Making America Great Again, contends that the Japanese economy is chronically biased in favor of corporate profits and investment...
Cable television was a strapping adolescent when Congress agreed in 1984 to free the industry from regulation to give it room to grow. Since then the business has developed with a passion. Now a vigorous adult, cable reaches 54% of U.S. television homes and has annual advertising revenue of more...
Critics of cable have attacked the present industry arrangements on several fronts in Washington. The measures include a bill introduced last month by Ohio Democrat Howard Metzenbaum, chairman of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, that would limit the number of subscribers that any system operator could control to 25% of the...