Word: reached
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These machines soon had competitors made by Amstrad, Panasonic and Canon. About 100,000 of the instruments were sold in 1986 for a total of about $70 million, mainly to small-business professionals, students and the work-at-home market. Overall U.S. sales figures are expected to reach 200,000 this year and 1 million by 1990. Total value of the personal-writer market by that time: an estimated $800 million...
...misunderstanding and misogyny reach such deplorable heights? Dijkstra offers conflicting scapegoats. One is the rise of industrial capitalism, which made such physical and moral demands that men fled, exhausted, to the image of woman as "priestess of virtuous inanity." The other, which explains the failure of such canonization, is the spread of Darwinism and the quack argument that women remained at a more primitive stage of evolution. As Darwin himself put it, "Man has ultimately become superior to woman...
...ancient rule for politicians. When far behind, rattle the chessboard and hope the pieces come down in a more promising alignment. New York Congressman Jack Kemp, struggling to reach the top rank of Republican presidential candidates, tried that gambit last week in Washington. Speaking before the 14th annual Conservative Political Action Conference, Kemp demanded that Secretary of State George Shultz resign. Said Kemp: "The Shultz doctrine is not the same thing as the Reagan doctrine...
Other pharmocological possibilities include a nasal spray and a trans-dermal patch, said Hitchcock, who added that these products will not reach the market in the near future...
...Harvard should reach out to dyslexic students to let them know that it's okay and that the University wants to know they're there," said Dr. Jonathan Schwartz, Fellow in Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital...