Word: rubik
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...China's greatest obstacle to modernization, I agree with White that human envy and appetite are potentially equally dangerous perils. While walking down a bustling Shanghai boulevard, I encountered a swarm of people surrounding a street merchant. What was the object of everyone's smiling fascination? A Rubik's Cube...
...austere life-style for so long that their desire for such items is hardly a surprise. Yet if Deng Xiaoping is to succeed in his Four Modernizations, he may have to suppress consumerism. The task of industrial progress will require that China's limited exchange be spent wisely. Rubik's Cubes, and similar products, may be the wrench in the cogs of China's revitalization...
...most visible aspect of the computer revolution, the video game, is its least significant. But even if the buzz and clang of the arcades is largely a teen-age fad, doomed to go the way of Rubik's Cube and the Hula Hoop, it is nonetheless a remarkable phenomenon. About 20 corporations are selling some 250 different game cassettes for roughly $2 billion this year. According to some estimates, more han half of all the personal computers bought for home use are devoted mainly to games...
...Along with diet books, cat books and advisories on how to make a profit from the coming apocalypse, there is a growing shelf concerned solely with mastering that infuriating, six-sided, six-colored, 27-part boggier with 42.3 quintillion possible combinations known as Rubik's Cube. The latest
...Fekete has advocated more and freer East-West trade. Said he last week: "We have 400 million people in the East who are very much interested in buying the consumer goods you produce." Hungary has actually been rather successful at selling many items in the West, from the original Rubik's Cube to Crown-Ikarus buses, which are used in Portland, Ore., and San Mateo, Calif...