Word: making
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...these extraordinary concessions, the Communists made three key assumptions. First, that only a Solidarity-led opposition could secure economic cooperation from the public and attract the billions of dollars in Western aid needed to finance the recovery. Second, that by bringing Solidarity into the political process, the party could make it share the onus for the belt-tightening policies that would have to be adopted. Third, that by setting an early election date, the government could prevent the opposition from organizing an effective campaign...
American executives were too preoccupied last week with spiriting their non- Chinese employees to safety in Hong Kong, Japan or South Korea to make - long-term decisions. Besides, like the Bush Administration, they had trouble finding out what was going on; several were unable to discover whether their Chinese offices and factories were still open and working. The bloodshed and chaos were known to have stopped some operations. Work ceased at Shanghai factories owned partly by Massachusetts-based Foxboro, an electronics company, and aircraft-making McDonnell Douglas. Chemical Bank suspended its efforts to organize a syndicate of U.S. and Japanese...
...center of the excitement was the first dual-deck videotape recorder available to U.S consumers, the VCR-2, made by the tiny Arizona-based Go-Video company. The VCR-2 enables its users to make high-quality duplicates of prerecorded tapes easily. It also lets viewers watch a tape while simultaneously recording off the air. Go-Video hopes to have a limited supply of the VCR-2 in stores by Christmastime, priced at just under...
...deal with the classic pitch: everybody would win. Underfunded schools would get tens of thousands of dollars' worth of video equipment free, students would get a news program to teach them that Chernobyl is not Cher's full name, advertisers would get a captive teenage audience, and Whittle would make a healthy profit. Despite loud criticism that the daily newscasts amounted to cynical commercialization of the classroom, Whittle announced last week that he was not only going ahead with Channel One but also expanding his service...
Whittle touts the new network as a watershed in American education. The company promises to provide 1,000 hours of free satellite time and $500,000 annually to make instructional programs accessible to participating schools. The Whittle network could even accommodate Channel One's recently announced cable competitors: CNN's Newsroom, a 15-minute daily newscast, and Discovery Channel's Assignment: Discovery, an hour of instructional programming...