Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Game manufacturers have probably been hardest hit by piracy. Says Michael Katz, president of Epyx, a California company: "It's like the weather. We accept it as something we cannot control but wish we could. Any smart kid can figure out how to break into a game." Some companies plot profits around the safeguards built into the software; once the pirates have cracked the codes, sales quickly fall off. No one in the industry can accurately estimate the extent of the copyright theft involving games...
While in California, Mitterrand wallowed in American technological know-how, inspecting a solar-powered village in Davis before sitting down with high-powered Silicon Valley executives at Stanford University. The French President was rapt when Whiz-Kid Steven Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer Inc., explained how venture capital and small companies helped trigger the Silicon Valley boom...
Teaching a group of musical-minded students Wednesday, Bowie exhibited all the color of a spirited orchestra conductor. "Loud!" he shouted, waving his cane in the air. "Play that stuff as loud as you were never allowed to as a kid...
Stewardesses are never very soothing anyway. Who are they trying to kid with that little spiel on takeoff about safety exits and all that crap? "In the unlikely event that we have to ditch the aircraft over water, your seat cushion will act as a floatation device." First off, if it's so damn unlikely that we're going to crash, why bother telling us about it? And a floatation device? Great, you're crashing into the water at 600 miles per hour--all you need is a surfboard...
...beefy sidekick, played with vulgar charm by Kenneth McMillan, have been lured into the newspaper's revamped Modern Living section, home for stories about boutiques and Mexican restaurants. "Walter," she recalls, "I saw my first dead body with you." Replies Walter: "Good times can't last forever, kid." The sassy and seasoned Pleshette could do credit to any town and role, but of all the show's fixtures only she seems credible. The hyperthyroid Examiner newsroom has untimely been ripped from The Front Page, the news is more suited to Poughkeepsie than Manhattan, and the other reporters...