Word: nikons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Beverly Hills' trendy Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf shop, the all-metal $99.50 Eva brand coffee maker outsells by 3 to 1 the part plastic $79.95 Braun coffee brewer. Sales of Kodak's low-priced Instamatic cameras have been sluggish, but sales are really clicking for Nikon, Olympus and Canon cameras, which retail for some $250 and up, and provide all the features that most people are ever likely to want in a lifetime. The understated lines and craftsmanship of the Cartier tank watch, starting at $450, keep it as popular today as when Louis Cartier first designed...
...gift of a particularly desirable stereo hi-fi system. In Tianjin (Tientsin), a factory received a special shipment from an overseas Chinese merchant with whom it regularly deals: a free new automobile. In Peking, officials of a trading corporation asked another foreigner for a specified gift, an expensive Nikon camera...
Despite repeated promises by the Japanese to dismantle their myriad nontariff barriers and allow more foreign goods into their potentially rich market, Japan's trade surplus continues to pile up. Last year it rose to $24.6 billion, from $17.3 billion in 1977. Imports of Toyotas, Sony TVs, Nikon cameras and other Japanese goods to the U.S. outpaced American exports to Japan by $13 billion, accounting for fully a third of the American trade deficit...
Made-up eyes stare away from each other over superficial sights in the general emptiness. They're wearing lapel pins that say "unique." The starry-eyed press agent is admiring Peter from afar and stalking him with a Nikon. "This is a really big one for him," she said, "he's coming back to his home...
...work looked something like Boog Powell trying to bunt. Flynn, the great rakehell, leaves no doubt that he knew how to rustle Maid Marian's bustle and no one could accuse his progeny of lacking cojones--witness Sean Flynn's disappearing into the Cambodian jungle with a moped, a Nikon in his quiver, a few cigarettes and a flawless jawline. Not unlike Operation Sherwood Forest in 1936 color. Infra dig, Mr. Eastman! Love...