Word: equips
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...M.P.A.A. signed a truce with Go-Video in 1988 after the company agreed to equip its VCRs with an electronic device that can detect a special signal on a movie tape and prevent the consumer from making a copy. Last year Go- Video settled with 21 other defendants in the suit, accepting $2 million. One of the companies, Samsung, agreed to manufacture the VCR-2 at its factory in South Korea. In exchange, Samsung will license Go-Video's technology to sell dual-deck VCRs under its own label around the world. Building on its earlier case, Go-Video filed...
...Europe and Japan for more than two years, the U.S. debut has been delayed by controversy. Reason: the recorders can produce flawless copies of CDs, which has raised fears in the music industry of a surge in illegal "pirate" tapes. Sony and other electronics manufacturers have agreed to equip their DAT recorders with special circuitry to prevent the machines from making multiple copies of the same tape, but many record companies and artists want Congress to write this agreement into...
...incentive to help: some $600 million to $1.2 billion in coca leaves are exported from Peru each year, feeding the world's cocaine cartels. Fujimori cannot hope to combat the drug problem if Peru sinks into political and economic chaos. The U.S. Congress has approved $35.9 million to equip Peruvian soldiers to fight guerrillas and cocaine merchants. But Fujimori wants to renegotiate, saying that the U.S. should pay to build roads and provide assistance for alternate crops...
...episode reminded the world that President Saddam Hussein had lost none of his fierce resolve to turn Iraq into the first Arab nuclear power. Saddam's reckless campaign also reinforced concerns about the rapid proliferation of arms in the Middle East, where, by Soviet count, the race to equip 5 million men has cost $600 billion during the past decade. As superpower rapprochement diminishes the desire of Washington and Moscow to meet the military wish list of its Middle East proteges, some of those clients are looking to achieve military self-sufficiency. The chilling result is the possibility of further...