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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...official debut will take place in Atlanta this week on the 99th anniversary of the original product's birth. The company will transform the city's downtown park into a three-ring circus. Theme for the day: "Step right up to the greatest taste on earth." Coke will also be launching 25,000 red and white balloons, skywriters, banner-flying planes and a skyful of fireworks. Said Coca-Cola Spokesman Robert Hope in a moment of candor: "We're using every glitzy thing you can imagine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling It Out | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...Yugoslavia. "I'm lucky I don't have a title," she says. "Being a princess can work against her in an enormous way. A lot of people don't want a name, they want a face. If models are known too well, it detracts from the impetus of the product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Blueblood in a Bathing Suit | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...visual display. It did, but even marvels must survive in the marketplace. Last week the slow-selling Lisa, which the company renamed Macintosh XL in January, joined the IBM PCjr. and Apple's own model III in the great, and growing, computer junkyard. Apple will discontinue production of the machine this summer. Said Company Spokeswoman Jane Anderson: "It just wasn't an economically viable product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Clunk, an Apple Falls | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

...business is better than greeting cards at finding imaginative ways to package and promote an old product. The leading companies, Hallmark of Kansas City and American Greetings of Cleveland, have roots that go back almost to the turn of the century, but they strive to be as innovative as fledgling Silicon Valley computer firms. The cardmakers are experimenting with different styles, coming up with novel reasons for people to buy their wares and using new technology that enables cards to play tunes or talk. Hallmark offers 1,200 varieties of cards for Mother's Day, the year's fourth-biggest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greetings, One and All! | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

Only a few weeks ago, it seemed as if the stun gun was a product whose time had come. The electrical self-defense device has become a big seller, both to worried citizens who dislike conventional guns and to police departments searching for a nonlethal method of "taking down" an emotionally disturbed suspect. "We can't keep 'em in stock," says Bobbi Repasy of the O'Herron police supply firm, which sells 250 a month in Danville...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Zap! Stun guns: hot but getting heat | 5/13/1985 | See Source »

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