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Word: fox (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arrived with spaceship speed. Until last year Atari and Mattel were the major competitors. Between 1979 and 1982 their profits surged from less than $80 million to $471 million, and the potential seemed unlimited. But their triumphs attracted a fleet of market invaders, including Coleco, Imagic, CBS, 20th Century-Fox, Parker Bros. Milton Bradley and Avalon Hill. By the end of last year, at least 30 firms were in the battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video Games Go Crunch! | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

...American, one British and one French--worked together on the project creating the overall design even though a different producer oversaw each installment. And if the first two episodes epitomize the rest of the series then no doubt remains that the producers succeeded in crafting what ex-Vietnam correspondent Fox Butterfield calls "...a meticulously researched and carefully balanced," documentary...

Author: By Webster A. Stone, | Title: Vietnam Revisited | 10/13/1983 | See Source »

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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Candidates for Class Marshals | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...evasion, mail fraud, wire fraud and trading with the enemy could earn Rich and Green prison sentences totaling 325 years each, fines of more than $500,000 and confiscation of millions of dollars in assets. One of Rich's holdings is a co-ownership in 20th Century-Fox, which his company controls jointly with Denver Oilman Marvin Davis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Marc Rich's Road to Riches | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

...sell tactics that hurt the customer. Among them: "low balling," that is, selling a computer that has an attractively low price but is too small to be useful, and "bait and switch," trading up a low-balled customer to a more expensive model. Says Christo: "The vendor is the fox among the lambs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Getting Rid of the Bugs | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

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