Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...four voices without any additional equipment.) Serious composers will find that the program's 1,400-symbol capacity allows them to write only about 70 measures at a time, requiring them to print out long pieces in sections. Moreover, using the program at full capacity causes the tempo of the machine to slow down, while short pieces whip by too fast for the eye to follow in detail...
...lame Edsel, named after Henry Ford II's father, or the Studebaker Dictator, a model introduced in 1927 but discontinued in 1936 as jackboots began marching across Europe, car manufacturers today are careful and scientific in their selections. Ford polled 600 consumers in shopping malls to help choose Tempo and Topaz to evoke the right image for its new compact models. The company rejected nominees like Coventry, Serval and Majestic. NameLab, a San Francisco firm, employed a computer to help christen Nissan's new Sentra. The coined word derives from sentry, which implies protection, and central, which suggests...
...real test of Ford's bold move, though, will be consumer reaction to the new Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz. These compacts are competing against General Motors X-cars, the Chevrolet Citation and the Buick Skylark, and Chrysler's K-cars, the Dodge Aries and the Plymouth Reliant. Developed at a cost of $1billion, the Tempo and Topaz were introduced in May. As part of an extravagant rollout, the cars were launched on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Intrepid, docked at a Hudson River pier in New York City. Said Chairman Philip Caldwell...
...still too soon to know for certain how well the Tempo and Topaz, which carry a base sticker price of $7,238, will do, but early signs are good. Hertz bought 15,200 of them for its rental fleet, the biggest single purchase it has ever made, and during the cars' first month on the market, dealers sold some 20,000 models, 50% more than the company's internal sales projections...
Such diplomatic talk notwithstanding, there were signs that the tempo of the Central American conflict might soon quicken. In the first phase of a Viet Nam-like operation known as the National Plan that has long been advocated by U.S. advisers, the Salvadoran army began chasing guerrillas out of the strategically important San Vicente province and prepared to stay a while to create a shield for a government-sponsored effort to rebuild schools, roads and medical centers. In Honduras, 100 U.S. advisers arrived last week to train Salvadoran troops, against a backdrop of new clashes on the Honduran-Nicaraguan border...