Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...size of the damages, he had attempted to settle the case all at once. In his original ruling, Christensen figured that certain "predatory" practices by IBM had damaged Telex to the tune of $117.5 million, a figure that he then tripled in accordance with antitrust law. But in this rush to judgment, he ruefully admitted last week, he had underestimated a crucial factor: much of Telex's potential business came from marketing disc drives and other "peripheral" computer components based on secret IBM designs. In his earlier finding that Telex had gained the designs by hiring away IBM employees...
...General Motors and Chrysler will not even discuss the subject. But it is no secret that all these companies routinely tear their competitors' products to pieces, not just verbally but physically. As soon as a new car or truck appears on the market, the other vehicle manufacturers regularly rush to buy one. Then they send it to a "teardown room," where the vehicle is put through a kind of disassembly line and torn into as many as 15,000 pieces that are hung on huge pegboards. Engineers study every part and piece to determine if it is somehow superior...
HILLES LIBRARY: Woody Allen's What's Up, Tiger Lily? and Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush, Oct. 19 and 20, 7:30, 9, 10:30, $.75 per film...
...Gold Rush. "I thought you was a chicken," says Big Jim McKay to prospector Charlie Chaplin. "GEORGIA!" Charlie screams in big letters later on. This 1925 movie is so good that there would be little reason to write about anything else this week...
Fullback Ralph Booth began a long, length-of-the-field rush with a pass down the right side to Auritt, who sent a beautiful grounder through the middle to a group of Harvard players where Leroy Thompson booted it home...