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Equally unsettled is the outlook for SelectaVision, the high-tech consumer product that RCA has been counting on to grab a share of the booming $2.5 billion home video programming market. Though RCA has so far sold 60,000 SelectaVisions, the company predicted that it would sell 200,000 last year...
...largest of the three. Whenever a child refused to work, he was punished with the circular device. The soldiers would place it over the child's head. Three people would hold it steady by means of ropes (the three lines at the bottom). A fourth would grab hold of the ring at the end of the other rope (the line at the top). The device worked like a camera lens, the areas between the lines in the drawing being metal blades. When the rope with the ring was pulled, the lens would close, and the child would be decapitated...
Left winger Hurley and her linemates, center Firkins Reed and right wing Liz Ward, victimized the Brown defense four times, not by hard shooting--all the goals were scored from within 15 feet--but by constantly out-hustling the Bruins to grab loose pucks and errant passes...
...multibillion-dollar game of financial chicken. On the one side, some American and European financiers contemplated seizing Polish bank accounts, ships or airliners if the Warsaw government fails to make a $500 million interest payment by the end of the year. If just one of the banks started to grab Polish assets, it could set off a dash for cash that would threaten the stability of international banking by calling down an avalanche of lawsuits, tightening credit around the world, and perhaps causing some financial failures. On the other side, the Polish foreign trade bank stalled for time, hoping...
...pigeons with the weary professionalism of a top C.P.A., and Lemmon, a network censor and a jilted husband poised to end his misery in suicide. They meet on their mutual missions, in a hotel room. For Matthau it is loathe at first sight; for Lemmon it is a last grab at camaraderie before lights out. See how they run on the treadmill of French farce, tripping over each other's discomfort, overdosing on the crudest twists of plot...