Word: matic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Riding high on Nolen's goal, Harvard banged out its own aggression for the first five minutes of the final period, but their momentary burst of pressure found Skidmore sharp as a veg-a-matic...
Both crews rowed with well-drilled precision and pose through choppy waters, into a stiff quartering headwind, and successfully past a wandering sailor who drifted into the middle of the race course where he was nearly drawn and quartered by a sixteen-blade floating Veg-O-Matic...
...only two video cassette systems-Sony's U-matic ($1,395) and Cartridge Television's Cartrivision ($ 1,350)-have made it to the showroom floor in the U.S. Both are combinations of TV sets and cassette-player attachments, but they are too expensive for the mass market. Sony has sold some 15,000 U-matics in the U.S. since their introduction last year-nearly all of them to schools, hospitals, businesses and other institutions. Last month Ford Motor Co. bought 4,000 for use in its dealer-education program. Since June Cartrivision has been offered for sale...
...screen while she digresses on Renaissance political thought; a golfer can stop Jack Nicklaus' swing just at the point where his own club usually goes awry. Using disks instead of tape does have a disadvantage; a video fan cannot make his own recordings. Both the Sony U-matic and the Cartrivision system can be sold with their own cameras for home taping, for at least $250 extra. On the other hand, most companies offer cassettes that do not work on a competitor's player-a situation reminiscent of the record-speed war that stymied the growth...