Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those prices, the LTE will be a formidable competitor, according to industry analysts. Boasts Compaq spokesman John Sweney: "It's a full-function PC. It gets everything into that same size without any of the compromises that other manufacturers had to make." Compaq is aiming at a hot new market: laptop sales are expected to grow from 834,000 units this year to 2 million annually...
...five seconds, the quaking stunned the populace out of sleep into an incomprehensible terror of showering plaster, scattering bric-a-brac, breaking dishes, shifting furniture, toppling walls and collapsing roofs. Waterfront houses lurched and fell apart, hotels hopped off their foundations. In the working-class district south of Market Street, tenements turned into tangled splinters, and four hotels capsized and collapsed, trapping scores. An added blast rattled the area, as the city gas plant blew up. Thousands of chimneys plunged through roofs. Many residents drowned, trapped, in deluges from ruptured water mains. An elaborate new city hall disintegrated. When...
Many well-built structures survived with minor damage, but 90% of all buildings were of frame construction. Wooden dwellings in the congested area south of Market (where most of the dead would be found) were reduced to heaps of kindling, which were quickly set afire by overturned stoves. Scattered blazes began to burn at once. Yet the city's troubles had hardly begun...
...with students recognizing that the market [for teachers and professors] will not only improve [in the coming years] but there will be shortages in some areas," said Martha P. Leape, director...
Even if these schools were found to fix the price of higher education, the majority neglected to consider the argument that students should not choose schools on the regular free-market model of lowest price...