Word: controls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...status symbols of the genre- Sanyos or Sonys or JVCs- cost up to $400, but for a mere $55 a box-toter can get a General Electric tape model that comes with a shoulder strap, a 5-in. heavy magnet speaker, an automat ic program advance, a variable tone control, an eight-track cassette player and, of course, great promise: It is called Loudmouth II. To the new breed of listener, such equipment has already be gun to seem a natural part of existence, inevitable. Says one of them, young Messenger Anthony Edwards of Manhattan: "You got your box, they...
...disgrace to the game," Gar cia fumed later. Added First Base Um pire Larry Barnett: "He goes goofy. He can't control himself, screaming, ranting and raving. Every time he comes out, he's shot out of a cannon." As for Weaver, he blithely, if inelegantly, explained: "I was in the bathroom throwing up. They made me sick...
...intrigue, the company is not likely to suffer much. Upheavals on foreign currency markets have cut into ITT's overseas earnings since April, but that is beyond the power of any management to control. By just about every other measure ITT, which last year earned a record $662 million on sales of $15.2 billion, remains healthy...
...thus cleared the way for Pan Am and Texas International, each holding close to 25% of National's shares, to fight fairly freely for control of the airline in the marketplace. If Eastern later gets CAB permission to buy more than 25% of National's stock (it now holds just 100 or so shares), it also will become a serious bidder...
...choices and the motives are somewhat spurious. By grafting stylistic affectations onto an otherwise naturalistic movie, Kaufman blunts the raw power that, is The Wanderers' greatest asset. Like his characters, he would have fared far bet ter if he had stopped showing off and practiced a little self-control...