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...survivors" of the trend to foreign ownership in the auto-parts industry, he said to workers at the Moog Automotive Co.--which has been owned since 1977 by a New York-based holding company controlled by an Italian family. Aides said Dukakis was unaware of the ownership of the company...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush Hammers Duke on Horton Attack | 10/8/1988 | See Source »

...spoke, one company executive asked another if Dukakis was aware of the plant's foreign ownership. Aides rushed to tell reporters that Dukakis was not criticizing Moog or its owners but was opposed to a growing trend of foreign investment in the United States...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bush Hammers Duke on Horton Attack | 10/8/1988 | See Source »

...aloud in an artificial voice, the device has been hailed as the most significant aid for the blind since the invention of Braille. In 1983 he introduced the Kurzweil 250, a computer-driven musical synthesizer that can mimic the sounds of instruments and voices. Even more sophisticated than Robert Moog's famous synthesizer, which was developed in the 1960s, the 250 can sound like a symphony orchestra one minute and a heavy-metal band the next. It has become a favorite of pop stars, including Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock and Prince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Talk? | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Well, Holland's back. Paradoxically, his return is probably the major reason why this record goes nowhere. His omnipresent keyboards suffuse this album at virtually every turn. There's some pretty classy synthesizer--Moog organ, piano, etc.--but the cuts remain stale, hermetically sealed as "great concepts...

Author: By Ari Z. Posner, | Title: Vinyl in Boston | 10/10/1985 | See Source »

...extreme view-as long as music is played, there will be a need for violinists, clarinetists and pianists-but the statement contains more than a little truth. Inventor Buchla, busy designing a new generation of machines in his Berkeley workshop, envisions an instrument without a keyboard at all. Moog, now in North Carolina, is "working with musicians who need instruments that don't exist." If they succeed, the future could hold an aesthetic in which unconventional sounds fall as lightly and harmoniously on the ear as the C major scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Switched-On Rock, Wired Classics | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

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