Word: pac
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COMMUNITIES around America work to shut down video game arcades, their elected representatives are playing and more with PAC-men. These PAC-men don't swallow quarters; they plunk bigger bucks into pockets of Washington politicians, a far more dangerous type of gaming that should be restricted immediately...
...Congress, the PACs--basically political finance arms of corporations, trade associations, and unions--are limited to a $5000 contribution per candidate, but they can give to as many candidates as they wish. In Presidential elections, however, they can spend an unlimited amount of money to advocate the election or defeat of a candidate, so long as no official connection exists between the candidate and the PAC. In both instances, money is corrupting the political process in each, solutions exist that Congress should initiate in this upcoming session...
With campaign costs as astronomical as they are, candidates are beholden to PACs for financing, and the PACs have happily bartered their funds for the chance to manipulate legislation. When beer distributors wanted monopoly territories for their distributors, their PAC--appropriately named SIXPAC--gave a total of $35,000 to members of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Monopolies. Not surprisingly, the monopoly territories won approval...
...made of, do you?the hardware and the software and the mouse? Not a chance. The computer is made of you, lady. It's got you all inside it. You wished it here. No, not to do your taxes or to teach you German or to whip you in Pac-Man four out of five. You wished it here because the country was running low on dream time. Which provides equal time. I'm talking social equality. I'm talking freedom with a capital F, like when the railroad first rolled in 150 years ago, roaring and puffing over...
...sold the cartridges and the consoles better than Warner's ten-year-old Atari. By acquiring the rights to popular arcade games like Space Invaders and Pac-Man, and designing them to fit players of its own manufacture, Atari saw its sales leap from $30 million in 1976 to $1.1 billion last year. As late as last summer it still held about 80% of the world market, and in doing so had got a lock on an enormously profitable business in which cartridges that cost only about $6 to manufacture can usually be sold for a retail price...