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...concepts. For Japanese firms, the real battle would be for the next big gadget to follow the vcr, which in 1993 was worth $7.7 billion to Japanese firms alone. As a Sony executive scoffed two years ago, ``Multimedia is just a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Nobody knows where...
...others, at least have the rainbow in sight. During the past year, U.S. companies have been streaming into the multimedia business, and the optimists among them expect to see gold glittering soon. By one U.S. estimate, business on the information highway--from providing video-on-demand to building fiber-optic trunk lines--will in 10 to 15 years generate $300 billion annually for software and computer makers, cable-TV and telephone companies, publishers and catalog houses. ``The Japanese want to get in on it, but they are a bit confused,'' says Roger Mathus, executive director of the U.S. Semiconductor Association...
...Rainbow Man (aka "John 3:16 Boy"): A get-out-of-jail-free card...
...idea: "You could almost say this venerable institution with its great credibility and history has been infiltrated slowly by the type of people it was not intended to deal with," says Wayne Cavenaugh, the group's spokesman. Whatever the reason, animals with names such as Rainbow's Maggie Rose O'Koehl and Jrees Buddy Holly are brushed, hairsprayed, beribboned and otherwise tarted up before going in front of the judges. Says Buddy Holly's owner, Jan Smith of Wichita, Kansas, a longtime exhibitor of Great Danes (and herself the runner-up for Miss Congeniality in the 1965 Miss Arkansas pageant...
...bunch of guys in front of Widener were singing something from 'The Wizard of Oz,'--'Over the Rainbow,' I think," said Rebecca Edwards '98. "And in the Union right after twelve, there was a person in long-johns yodeling...