Word: ket
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machine has even caught the fancy of some Fortune 500 companies, a mar ket Apple had temporarily abandoned to IBM's more seasoned direct-sales force. The accounting firm of Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. has ordered 3,500 Macintoshes for use in its 200 offices around the country. Later this month Businessland, a computer distributor that had previously concentrated on IBM machines, will add Mac to its product line. Two other national retail chains, ComputerLand and Sears, are reported to be eyeing the new Apple...
...microelectronics technology." The company has vast financial resources and unquestioned technological prowess, but skeptics wonder if it has enough marketing skill for the fast-moving chip competition. Asks George Gilder in Release 1.0, an electronics-industry newsletter: "Can a monopoly-coddled monster find happiness in the merchant semiconductor mar ket? Can an elephant play jacks...
...Guangyi, 64, was recently sentenced to five years in prison for "leaking important state secrets." Among them: the time, place and agenda of an upcoming meeting of the plenary session of the Communist Party Central Committee. Last month two European journalists browsing in downtown Peking's stamp mar ket were startled when two plain-clothes policemen emerged from the crowd of shoppers to arrest the dealer who had just sold them a $5 stamp. The dealer had probably defied an earlier warning not to sell to foreign customers...
Eskesen also cited research findings that business is the only format in which to "marry technological competence with mar- ket savvy." Business research is also a prime resource of innovation, jobs, and "other goodies," she aded...
...face up there in the sky looking down on you," the President said. Replied Leahy: "I'll have to go to the Capitol physician first to get my arm put back in the socket." Vermont offered little escape. At Sunday Mass, an usher passing the collection bas ket leaned over and whispered, "Vote against AWACS." Leahy finally...