Word: timex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...designed on 3-D computers rather than from mock-ups made of cardboard or clay. Last year the entire line of Coca- Cola soft drinks was redesigned around a new logo -- a project that would have taken twice as long had it not been done by machine. Timex wristwatches, Ping golf clubs, Reebok sneakers and Volvo station wagons are all created on graphics workstations. Volvo even uses a satellite hookup to connect its design computers in California with its manufacturing computers in Gothenburg, Sweden. If a new model does not leave sufficient headroom to accommodate the average American driver...
...vowed not to sign it. Sure there are some dubious provisions, such as the many pet projects of Congressmen more interested in their constituents than in an effective trade policy. Rep Beryl Anthony (D.-Ark.) inserted a provision lowering tariffs on watch parts, a move that would benefit the Timex plant in his district. Rep. Don Bonker (D.-Wash.) wants to restrict plywood imports that hurt his state's timber industry...
...industry. The bruising competition that resulted has turned into a battle for survival. Future Computing, a Dallas-based market research firm, says that in the past two years the number of personal computer manufacturers has shriveled from more than 200 to about 150. Some companies, including Mattel and Timex, have simply dropped their home computer lines, but several smaller firms like Gavilan Computer of Campbell, Calif., and Beehive International of Salt Lake City, have filed for bankruptcy. Last year 570 of 3,800 computer retailers in the U.S. closed their doors or were taken over by large chains. Even...
Ebert (blowing his nose loudly): "And I think that's funny. How could you not laugh at a world in which the killer can get shot, axed in the head, downed and run over by a bulldozer and still keep on ripping. Jason is the Timex watch of psychopathic killers. Part 5 even pays tribute to Jerry Lewis's touching imitations of spastics by setting up Jason in a mental institution. With this intricate plot twist, he can back has way through orphans, stutters, nymphomaniacs, hicks and all the other people that no one really cares about...
...orphan computers end up in the closet because people don't know what to do with them," says Susan Mahoney, who directs a Timex Sinclair User Group out of her home in Waterbury, Conn. Her 600-member organization, one of 100 such U.S. chapters devoted to Timex alone, helps bring those computers back out of the closet. The Timex groups exchange newsletters, sponsor joint meetings and cooperate in finding spare parts...