Word: ests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...products like disk-film cameras have been lackluster, and videotape recorders have become strong competitors for the consumer dollar. Against this dim background, Minolta has been a bright performer. The Japanese firm's Maxxum, which focuses automatically and sells for about $350 with a basic lens, has turned Minolta (est. fiscal-1985 sales: $975 million) into the No. 1 producer of 35- mm single-lens reflex (reflected-image) cameras, which account for a third of the worldwide camera market. "This is one of those epochmaking products that come out once in a decade," says Motohiko Kimura, director of research...
...have long been able to buy inexpensive point-and-shoot cameras, but the Maxxum was the first fully automated single-lens reflex product to enable people to take high-quality 35-mm pictures with high-technology ease. Now the year-old Maxxum is attracting rivals. Last week Nippon Kogaku (est. fiscal-1985 sales: $940 million), the maker of Nikon, became the first firm to announce a comparable alternative to Minolta's pioneering model. Like the Maxxum, the Nikon N2020 will use two microchips and a tiny motor inside the camera to focus automatically. The camera, which will be priced...
...Aquino, in a statement released 10 hours after polls closed at 3 p.m. yesterday (2 a.m. EST), said, "The trend is clear and irreversible. The people and I have won and we know...
Yesterday's launch, scheduled for 9:38 a.m. EST, had been delayed two hours while officials analyzed the possibility that foot-long launch-pad icicles that formed in the frosty Florida morning might cause problems. But after liftoff, at 11:38 a.m., the NASA commentator, Steve Nesbitt, reported systems were normal...
Overall, the icemen are but 1-5 against the Badgers and when the Harvard squad braves the 8000-plus in the Coliseum Saturday night (8:35 p.m. EST) and Sunday afternoon (2:05 p.m. EST), it will have a big job to bury the Badgers in their hole...