Word: stereos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...case was atypical, incidental to the major legal issues at stake and, for some time now, moot to him personally. But San Francisco stereo Salesman Jagdish Rai Chadha, 38, provided the unlikely focal point for last week's Supreme Court decision banishing the legislative veto and altering the balance of power in the U.S. Government. Said a stunned Chadha, after hearing the news in a 7 a.m. phone call from his victorious Washington lawyer: "It's kind of overwhelming...
Software is to computers what gasoline is to automobiles or records are to stereo sets. Without software, a computer is only an inarticulate mass of electronic parts. Says David Sturtevant of the Association of Data Processing Service Organizations: "The computer alone is as dumb as a stump. It won't even keep beer cold." Software, the programs that come in cartridges or on floppy vinyl discs, instructs the machine to carry out the commands given to it. Customers are willing to spend heavily to get the right software. Industry experts estimate that for every $1,000 consumers invest...
...from a new line of products that the manufacturer, Charles of the Ritz, calls "the next frontier in home entertainment." Starting next fall, living-room Lotharios will be able to set the appropriate mood not only with sights and sounds but with scents as well. Right there between the stereo and the chilled bottle of Dom Perignon will be a small electronic unit about the size of a Kleenex box huffing and puffing out little clouds of Passion or Seduction...
...frequency of fire alarms also poses a safety hazard, officials say. The repeated alarms sometimes several in a single night at the same House--have bred a lackadaisical attitude toward evacuating. Students in some Houses have made it a custom to blast their stereo to muffle the strens. "If we had a real fire, everyone in Winthrop would just fry," says Winthrop Master James A. Davis...
...manages to act arrogant and oily without the sleaze that usually comes with it. Neither Spano nor Arquette has a chance against the movie's sound track, however. Whenever things reach a climactic pitch, whenever Sayles wants us to feel excited or depressed, he simply turns on the stereo. Instead of letting the players act, he pounds the mood home with driving rock. It's there when Sheik first strides into the school cafeteria. It's there when a wide-eyed Jill watches couples neck in Joey D's. It's there when the couple play hooky...