Word: steven
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...seven men and women can represent the myriad variations of the entrepreneurial spirit, of course; such choices are arbitrary. Some celebrated and familiar success stories have been omitted simply because they are so celebrated: Lee Iacocca's rescue of Chrysler, for example, or Steven Jobs' creation of the Apple Computer empire. This selection is a sampling, a sketchbook and a salute...
...estimated at $40 million, the PCjr sold as sluggishly as Edsels in the late 1950s. Consumers seemed to be turned off by the computer's toylike appearance and $1,269 price tag. Dealers, stuck with growing inventories of unsold machines, were beginning to panic. Wrote Popular Computing Columnist Steven Levy: "The machine has the smell of death about...
...aggressive campaign to rescue the ailing machine has raised new fears about its corporate clout. Apple Chairman Steven Jobs hints that the company may be unloading its machines at prices below the cost of production. If so, it could be risking trouble with antitrust laws, which prohibit firms from selling products at a loss when the effect is to drive out competitors. The Government's decade-long antitrust case against IBM was dropped in January 1982, but a few industry executives, including Apple's Jobs and Benjamin Rosen, chairman of Compaq, are beginning to talk openly about another...
Starman is not so much a clone as that familiar subspecies, the Hollywood hybrid. If any scene worked in any earlier movie, it is used here, and it works here. Start with the collected works of Steven Spielberg (E. T., Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Sugarland Express), add the opposites-attract love story of every road movie from It Happened One Night to Romancing the Stone, and give it the glaze of cerulean romance. It is as if the United Nations had launched a videodisk containing snippets from every Hollywood genre, which had then been synthesized...
...nominee for her acclaimed role as a quietly determined widow in Places in the Heart; and Alan Greisman, 37, movie producer (Windy City), whom she met six months ago, when he brought a project to her fledgling production company; she for the second time (she is long divorced from Steven Craig, the father of her two sons), he for the first; in Tarzana, Calif...