Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apple Computer's Macintosh model, which came on the market one year ago, took off faster than any other personal computer since the launch of IBM's PC in 1981. Apple so far has sold more than 275,000 Macintoshes. The company, the symbol of U.S. entrepreneurial innovation, saw profits in the first quarter of fiscal 1985 zoom to $46.1 million, an eightfold gain from the same period in 1984. Yet Macintosh (basic price: $2,195) and its maker have a serious handicap. Many Macintosh buyers have been Apple's characteristic flannel-shirt clientele--students, hackers and do-it-yourselfers...
...standard Macintosh held little promise as an office machine. Its 128K memory was too small to run complicated programs, and no real business software was available. But in September Apple began selling the so-called Fat Mac, a model with a memory expanded to 512K. In November came another breakthrough, when the developers of the bestselling Lotus 1-2-3 business program announced a version for the Macintosh, called Jazz...
...which denounced "institutionalized violence" and other social ills, thus providing the opening wedge for liberation theology. In the '70s, as armed insurrection and military dictatorship spread across Latin America, liberation theology took on a more explicitly political dimension. The radical fringe of liberation theology eventually seemed to find its model of change in the 1979 Nicaraguan revolution. Priests and Catholic laymen united with the Marxist-Leninist Sandinistas to overthrow Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. In the ensuing euphoria of the Sandinista triumph, the Rev. Paul Schmitz, a U.S. priest who is now a bishop in Nicaragua, declared that the country...
Held up by the Socialists as a model of an efficiently run nationalized French industry, Renault has been engulfed in red ink since Hanon took over three years ago. Last year it fell from first to sixth place in sales among European automobile firms and lost nearly $1 billion...
...other observers sense that Law has already mapped out his agenda for Boston with high expectations to make it "a role model for society," says Professor of Business Administration Stephen H. Fuller...