Word: marketed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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West Germany is also running an international surplus, but unlike Japan, it maintains few barriers to imports. More to the point, West Germany's trade with the U.S. is several hundred million dollars in deficit, and the nine countries of the Common Market as a whole imported $3.6 billion more from the U.S. than they exported to it in the first nine months of this year. As a result, Europeans are understandably resentful of Washington's feeling that they are somehow or other sponging off U.S. expansion and are particularly wary of calls to pump up their...
...future of their industry. GM Chairman Thomas Murphy clings to a forecast of record U.S. car and truck sales in 1978. Ford is highly optimistic, with good reason: its sales in early December jumped 13% above those of a year ago, giving it about a third of the domestic market. The company will spend $2.5 billion next year to enlarge its plants, launching an expansion program that Chairman Henry Ford II describes as "bigger than anything we've ever tackled before in the 75-year history of the Ford Motor Co." It will continue through...
...sell at a base cost of $3,706 (tax and title extra). The price, combined with an overall mileage rating of 30 m.p.g., will certainly help Chrysler compete with imports like the stripped-down Volkswagen Rabbit, which has just gone up to $4,030. With its share of the market at just 12%, the lowest since the early '60s, Chrysler is gambling $350 million on the new models. First-year projections are for sales...
...like Parker Bros.' Code Name: Sector (up to $50), in which the computer plays the part of a hunted submarine, and Milton Bradley's bleeping, buzzing Electronic Battleship (also up to $50)-and customers trying to buy them. Games are the most important segment of the toy market. Manufacturers are expected to gross some $450 million in 1977, up 10% from the previous year. Last season TV action games of the Pong variety were the electronic craze, and manufacturers Fairchild and Atari are back on the market with more versatile and more expensive cassette models...
...chart with a wax crayon-which, as all twelve-year-olds will recognize, is not exactly state-of-the-art technology. Comp IV and Chess Challenger are not quite smart enough to bamboozle a good human player; Gammonmaster II plays its roles well but was rushed onto the market without a doubling cube (though one is in the works); Electronic Battleship, while physically impressive and wonderfully noisy, lacks an AC adapter to help preserve batteries and as a game is not quite as interesting (because ships can't be placed on diagonals) as the traditional paper-and-pencil battleship...