Word: stainless-steel
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...grove of slender stainless-steel rods rises from a plate. This base vibrates at 30 cycles per second; the rods flex rapidly, in harmonic curves. Set in a dark room, they are lit by strobes. The pulse of the flashing lights varies-they are connected to sound and proximity sensors. The result is that when one approaches a Tsai or makes a noise in its vicinity, the thing responds. The rods appear to move; there is a shimmering, a flashing, an eerie ballet of metal, whose apparent movements range from stillness to jittering, and back to a slow, indescribably sensuous...
...they buy it in the form of sweaters?" He promptly commissioned four top British artists to design sweaters-and now, after a "nightmare" period devoted to making colors and patterns accurate, the work-of-art sweaters are selling at $96 apiece, each packed in a box with a stainless-steel rim, polystyrene backing and a clear plastic front, so that they can be hung on a wall when not hung on an owner...
...quiet life" of monopolists-an existence undisturbed by the innovations of pushy competitors. Many of the genuinely new products that have appeared since World War II have been the work of small firms. Transistor radios were first sold in large volume by Sony, then a struggling young Japanese company; stainless-steel razor blades were introduced by Wilkinson Sword, a British firm that few Americans had heard of; dry copiers were invented by an obscure company then called Haloid Xerox; the picture-in-a-minute camera was developed by Polaroid, a firm with no prior experience in photography. Similarly, the fast...
...business backlash stings Japan in many ways. The U.S. is negotiating tighter quotas on Japanese steel and has just agreed on a quota for stainless-steel flatware. Many businessmen want the Government to go much further. Last year protectionists raced through the House a bill authorizing quotas on any foreign product that won as much as 15% of a U.S. market. The chief target: Japan. The bill died in a Senate adjournment rush, but the import debate has resurfaced this year in a way that could poison U.S.-Japanese political relations...
...Japan has reduced its items in violation of GATT from 120 to 80, and we expect the number to be down to 40 by September. Meanwhile, we are attempting to negotiate an extension and tightening of the voluntary limitations on steel imports. We have negotiated a voluntary limitation on stainless-steel flatware. We are now talking about shoes, and we may attempt to solve that problem by a voluntary limitation. Is it appropriate that while we are discussing these voluntary limitations with the Japanese, we take off after them on their remaining GATT violations, when they are already reducing them...