Word: rca
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Many large companies have voluntarily increased the pensions of their retirees. Exxon, for example, last year boosted the annual benefits for 21,000 former employees. Similar steps have been taken by RCA, the Continental Group and New York's Chemical Bank...
American firms experimenting with similar cameras tried last week to downplay Sony's breakthrough. "I can't understand all the fuss," said William Webster, vice president of RCA Laboratories in Princeton, N.J., which has developed a videotape camera that operates on the same principle. "Why would anyone want a still camera that takes pictures only as sharp as those on your TV? It's an idea we've discussed for years and clearly decided that there's no market for the product." Said Eastman Kodak Vice President John Robertson: "We expect traditional still photography...
Perhaps the biggest winner from the strike has been the car-rental agencies. Nationwide business for the Hertz division of the RCA Corp. was up 10%; rentals by the firm jumped 25% in Manhattan and 35% in Atlanta. In Dallas-Fort Worth, demand for cars was so strong that National Car Rental System, a subsidiary of Household Finance Corp., ran out of vehicles...
...upwards of $14,000, the home entertainer can furnish his room with, say, a big-screen Kloss Novabeam projection TV, a Sony Betamax video recorder, a Panasonic video-tape color camera, an RCA videodisc player, a Yamaha audionics stereo with electrostatic-charged speakers, a film library, video tapes and discs, stereo records and Atari electronic games. He may add specially crafted lounge chairs at $1,000 each and banquettes ($2,000). For the addicted media roominator there is also a computer to keep the collection organized. Some dealers complain that advances in equipment are so rapid there...
Finally, it was the eleventh-hour intercession of Thornton Bradshaw, the new head of NBC's parent company RCA, that seems to have convinced Brokaw. After a sleepless weekend at a retreat on Long Island-and a sharp reminder from his 13-year-old daughter at summer camp to "let me know what you decide; I don't want to have to read it in the newspapers"-Brokaw made his choice. Said he: "I have been here for 15 years. I just couldn't find enough reasons to walk out the door...