Word: productions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...film, he billed it the greatest breakthrough since Daguerre's silver-coated copper photographic plate. With Sony's still-video camera, photographers could instantly display their snapshots on ordinary TV screens. But when it finally came out in 1987 with a price tag of about $7,000, the product did not exactly overwhelm the marketplace. Except in a few specialized applications in business and journalism, the filmless camera virtually disappeared...
...idea from school that buying fast food is as important as learning when Columbus discovered America?" asks Patricia Albjerg Graham, dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Adds Bella Rosenberg, an official at the American Federation of Teachers: "By showing commercials, schools are implicitly endorsing the product." Others charge that principals are selling their students' souls for a pile of high- tech hardware. Says Peggy Charren, who heads Action for Children's Television: "They see stars in their eyes in the shape of television sets...
Ralph Hoagland, who owns the building that once housed the popular movie house, says that competition from USA Cinemas, the chain that has a near-monopoly on Boston-area theaters, prevented the rebuilding of the Orson Welles. "It was hard to get good product," Hoagland says...
...before, such liberalism was denigrated as the result of rote belief, now it is said to be the product of a desire to be "correct," fashionable. It is not so much unthinking, as conniving...
While economists may be more open to peaceful coexistence, they still tend to form battle lines over the importance of the budget deficits. Some economists contend that the deficit is no longer a menace because it has shrunk from more than 6% of the gross national product in 1983 to about 3% right now. That is lower than the level of deficit spending during 1975-76, for example, when the gap was widened by a recession. Friedman says he accepts the deficit because it has restrained federal spending. "Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils," he says...