Word: stereos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest change in the Nakatanis' life has been in the increased conveniences, but the Japanese salary man is fast learning a lesson absorbed by his Western counterpart long ago. "Now that all of us have a car, color TV and a stereo," says Nakatani, "we Japanese have begun to hanker for a mink coat for the wife and a foreign-made car." Already, Japanese housewives are complaining about "the servant problem...
...sales leadership for a highly popular new product usually finds that the battle has only begun. The harder part of the fight is to stay on top after competitors swarm into the market, as they almost inevitably do. This lesson is hitting home at Ampex Corp., which helped make stereo tape recordings one of the outstanding sales successes of the late 1960s...
Ampex, based in Redwood City, Calif., first won supremacy in the market by the ancient strategy of being first with the most. When stereo tape cartridges and portable players appeared in 1965, most recording companies were reluctant to make the large investment needed to produce tapes for cartridges. Ampex officials correctly figured that consumers, particularly among the young, would spend heavily for the opportunity to listen to 80 minutes or so of uninterrupted stereo music of their choice in cars, on the beach, or anywhere that they might travel. The company contracted to reproduce on tape the music of scores...
...Community College-are now trying to get reimbursed for the losses, which they estimate at $13,000. The authority is being helpful in its own way. It returned a large pile of torn mattresses, damaged furniture and waterlogged rugs from the city dump. There is no trace of the stereo sets, camera and other valuables that the boys had carefully locked in a separate room of the house...
...heads two feet apart but on opposite sides of the glass, for no more than five or six seconds. Then, his body still motionless, he rotated his head to look at the packages in the back seat, to the hood of our gleaming red Volvo, to the blaring stereo cartridge/AM-FM radio system on the dashboard, up and down my reclining body, and, just for a split second, back at my face. Then he stepped away from the window to pull the gas nozzle out of the tank, leaving a thick streak on the area he was cleaning...