Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cassette looks similar to a standard tape but is about half as large and has a much clearer, sharper sound. Like the compact disc, DAT is the product of a digital recording method that uses computer chips to break sound down into billions of bits of information, which are stored on magnetic tape. The process reproduces sound more faithfully and with less background hiss and crackling than traditional analog recording techniques...
Suddenly the professors had a salable product. Bolstered by the marketing skills of their new partner, a Bronx-born investment consultant named John O'Brien, portfolio insurance took off. By 1984, Los Angeles-based Leland O'Brien Rubinstein was insuring hundreds of millions in assets. Two years later, the firm had licensed its strategy to half a dozen investment counselors, including Wells Fargo Investment Advisors and Aetna Life Insurance, and the value of covered assets had grown to some $45 billion...
...COUCH Trip is one of those movies that should never have been conceived, never should have been written, never should have been produced. directed, filmed, marketed, or viewed. Everyone involved with this product should change their names...
Holograms, those silvery 3-D images that adorn 500 million credit cards, will - soon make an appearance on another product: designer clothing. Garments made by Italy's Gruppo GFT for European designers Valentino, Emanuel Ungaro and Claude Montana will arrive in stores next spring bearing wafer-thin holograms that are glued to labels inside the clothing. The images, virtually impossible to copy, will certify to shoppers and retailers that the designer pieces are authentic. Anyone who tries to rip out the label and transfer it to a counterfeit designer garment will ruin the hologram. Clothing manufacturers hope the holograms will...
...California entertainment analyst, predicts that by the end of 1988 fans in Los Angeles will be paying $7. Some Angelenos seem sanguine at the prospect. "Movies are better than ever," says Bob Singer, 32, standing in line for Moonstruck, "and I don't mind paying more for a better product. So why don't they just reduce the price of popcorn a dollar and call it even...