Word: pioneering
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...item two years ago, have fallen sharply. Conventional turntables have also been moving at a stagnant rate. Manufacturers of audio gear hope that the popularity of CD players will create a resurgence of demand for amplifiers and speakers. Says Tadahiko Nakaoki, a product planner for Japan's Pioneer brand: "Everybody in this business must be relieved deep down in their hearts...
Then, at week's end, Apple Computer, a pioneer in personal computers, revealed the extent of its woes. Apple said it will lay off 1,200 of its 5,800 employees and shutter plants in Texas, California and Ireland. The company said it would report a loss for the third quarter of this year...
Still others felt the pioneer spirit...
...history is more cryptic than that of Noah Cross (John Huston in Chinatown), ruthless Los Angeles pioneer, father to his own granddaughter and possible sire of Elsa Bannister (Rita Hayworth in The Lady from Shanghai). He is the omnipotent wizard in Thomson's sinister Oz, an America whose center is located in Bedford Falls, Neb. It is a mythical place of lost innocence and the home of George Bailey, who watches SAC bombers over the cornfields of his youth and concludes that "America is just a story of its men and women going from happiness to stoicism...
DIED. Tapio Wirkkala, 69, Finland's foremost designer in glass, ceramics, wood and metal, and a pioneer of the elegant, functional Scandinavian look; of a heart attack; in Esbo, Finland. Combining a hands-on knowledge of industrial production techniques, a sculptor's sensibility and a craftsman's intimate familiarity with his media, he was, in the view of many critics, the pre- eminent modern maker of such objects as vases, cutlery and glassware (including the distinctive frosted Finlandia vodka bottle...