Word: investments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wised up, and the action has moved to rentals. Why pay the price to own Ordinary People when you can pay a fraction of the cost (sometimes as little as a dollar a day) to rent it? Now the movie companies want in. "We couldn't continue to invest millions of dollars to feed this market and not get any of it back," says Leon Knize, senior marketing vice president for Warner Home Video, explaining why his company has switched from a sales to a rental-only policy...
...enclosed bowl called Step 'n Dine encourages precocious felines to step on a pedal to get at the kibble. For cats who accompany their owners, there are carrying cases that cost as much as $420 for Louis Vuitton versions, and for $33.98, a caring cat owner may invest in a tiny, burglar-and rat-proof door that can be installed at the bottom of a regular house door; the cat opens it with a magnetic device worn around its neck. At Animal Kingdom in Chicago, there is the Cat-A-Lac rolling bed that sells...
...orbit (Westar 1, Comstar D2), but cable programmers like Warner Amex and HBO regard the Satcoms as particularly desirable. Reason: their customers, the cable operators around the country, have antennas that can pick up signals from only one satellite at a time. Naturally, the cable operators would rather invest in a single antenna and still receive the widest possible variety of programs to pass on to home subscribers. Since the Satcoms carry almost nothing but cable signals, they offer such a variety. Thus for programmers, leasing a transponder on a Satcom is like moving into the best neighborhood in town...
General Motors is the company's principal customer, and Koltanbar thus must co-ordinate closely with GM from the earliest stages of assembly line design. When Koltanbar noted 3½ years ago that the giant automaker was starting to invest heavily in CAD/CAM, the company concluded that if it did not keep pace it could not compete. Says Company Executive Vice President Pat Flynn: "By the end of the decade, anyone in the automotive industry will have to have a computer graphics system in order to survive...
...Board also decided to change the allocation of its endowment among various types of investments--shifting $60 million from fixed-income investments to equity investments, doubling its international investments, and beginning to invest in smaller, less prominent companies...