Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Adam computer, which the company offered for $600. In a statement to shareholders, Coleco blamed much of the consumer dissatisfaction on "manuals which did not offer the first-time user adequate assistance." Observes Joseph Sugarman, president of J S & A, a mail-order house that specializes in high-tech merchandise: "Very often, items with the highest rate of return are those where customers are frustrated with the instructions." Coleco has reintroduced the Adam computer, complete with a new instruction manual...
...International Summer Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago is the gaudy showcase of American high tech. By day, 100,000 industry officials throng the aisles of vast McCormick Place, surrounded by towering displays at 1,381 booths. At night, they dip shrimp into cocktail sauce at lavish corporate receptions and gossip about the competition. A year ago at the show, people were predicting that it was just a matter of time before there would be a computer in every house. But last week much of the talk was about the slow growth in home computers...
...taken over by Sperry in 1947; he kept that operation running profitably during the 1960s when the company's Univac division was bungling its head-to-head computer competition with IBM. As Sperry's boss, he more than tripled revenues to $5.6 billion, pushed for high-tech sales to the Soviet Union, expanded ex ports so that 44% of Sperry's business was overseas, then saw foreign currency and interest fluctuations curtail company earnings before his retirement...
Mondale, following the conventional wisdom that a front runner should be aloof, barely appears and never speaks in his low-tech ads, which consist mostly of text and testimonials. Hart, by contrast, is on camera in all his commercials. Both candidates have separate series for each coast: Mondale ads condemning Hart for opposing federal handgun legislation have aired in New Jersey, which has tough state controls, but not in California. Hart's New Jersey commercials show him talking about economic redevelopment on a blacktop swath of the Meadowlands sports complex, which was built on a reclaimed swamp. His California...
...dramatic change in Reuters' fortunes is only indirectly a result of its journalism. The bulk of the company's revenues, and profits, predicted to reach $98 million for 1984, come from a high-tech version of the original business started by Paul Julius Reuter in 1850: the deli very of financial news between the Prussian town of Aachen and Brussels by carrier pigeon. Reuters has become a prime worldwide supplier, with clients in 112 countries, of electronically transmitted, up-to-the-minute data about currency exchange rates, commodity prices, stocks, bonds, even the availability of tanker space...