Word: peanuts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...long before that. Country sayings almost invariably have a much higher poetic component than their big-city equivalents. Some of these observations have become classics, like "nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockin' chairs." One of my particular favorites is "as lonesome as a peanut in a boxcar...
...campaign of new ideas, began to look safer to voters unsettled by Hart's change of name (from Hartpence) and age (younger by a year). Said Housewife Marge Lannon, 37, who voted for Mondale in Illinois: "I was taken in by Hart, but then I remembered the peanut farmer who came in and was President before anyone realized it. Mondale has a lot more experience...
When IBM introduced the PCjr last fall, it seemed to many industry observers that the personal-computer game was over. Initial buyer interest in the $1,269 machine was so feverish that sales of competing models slumped months before the so-called Peanut arrived at retail stores. Many dealers felt they would be selling PCjrs as fast as IBM could turn them out. "The market is voting with dollars," said David Wagman of Softsel, the country's largest independent software distributor. "And it's saying, 'IBM will be our standard...
...PCjr seems overpriced. "For its level of performance," says William Bowman, chairman of Spinnaker, a leading software publisher, "it is simply the most expensive machine on the market." Although the Macintosh was actually aimed to compete with the bigger IBM PC, the price difference between Mac and the Peanut shrinks to about $300 when the costs of IBM's color monitor, joystick and software programs are added...
...always dangerous to second-guess IBM, and nobody is about to write off the PCjr. IBM has just begun to roll out the Peanut's estimated $40 million advertising and promotion budget, and it may yet correct some of the machine's deficiencies. Says Bill Wallace, co-president of the Dallas-based Compco computer-store chain: "IBM will do whatever fine tuning it has to do to make its product viable." In fact, says Ulric Weil, a computer analyst at Morgan Stanley, IBM could sell as many as half a million PCjrs by year...