Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quickly stripped of their livelihood. Tiny Lesotho, to take one example, would not only be flooded with 140,000 returning workers, equivalent to more than 75% of its wage-labor force, but would also be deprived of their salary remittances, which currently exceed the country's entire gross domestic product. Earlier this year South Africa showed how it could use its economic might against Lesotho, which had been harboring anti-Pretoria activists. South Africa put up an economic blockade, and within 19 days there was a military takeover...
...manufacturer backs its product with an unusual one-year guarantee. American Antenna of Elgin, Ill., reimburses owners of its K40 receivers for speeding fines if the users are zapped by police radar...
...pays all the pickle farmers they employ to stop producing sour cucumbers and begin producing staples like potatoes, grain and the like. What you've got here is the beginning of an international food distribution service. Since everyone throws out the pickles anyway, we eliminate waste and the needless production of a needless product...
...modern video equipment, replace the chemical film of still photography with new forms of image making. In 1981 Japan's Sony Corp. announced a breakthrough with the Mavica, which looked like a conventional 35-mm camera but stored pictures on miniaturized computer floppy disks. Technical snafus, however, kept the product from coming to market...
...Canon's turn. At a New York City press conference last week, Fujio Mitarai, president of the Japanese company's U.S. subsidiary, formally introduced the SVS (for still-camera video system), a six-piece array of equipment that includes a 2.2-lb. electronic camera. Like Sony's earlier product, the SVS records images as impulses that can be transmitted electronically. Canon U.S.A. says the SVS will be available in August...