Word: tvs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decade ago, Japanese workers yearned for what was then considered the three essentials of modern life: a car, a color television set and an air conditioner. Today those products are commonplace. The number of families with cars has grown from 17% in 1970 to 62%; those with color TVs from 26% to 98.9%; those with air conditioners from 5.9% to 40%. Signs of a national shopping spree are everywhere. A new government survey of 65,000 families found that the most popular consumer purchases include video tape recorders ($700) and pianos...
...paid $99 for harborside hotel rooms, and the hoi polloi jammed the sidewalks. It seemed none of them (save the Queen) could help smiling and clapping or waving their $3 Union Jacks. Hundreds of overnight campers stood on lounge chairs or watched the spectacle on portable TVs. Nora de la Cruz brought her portrait of the Queen trimmed with cotton. Said she: "Too bad we could have no block parties...
...crystal beer mugs, 18 nights of free hotel accommodations, free rental of a Cadillac or Lincoln for 14 days and two round-trip plane tickets to a major city in the continental U.S., Hawaii, Bermuda, the Bahamas or the Caribbean. Avis has countered with such prizes as color TVs, cruises on the Queen Elizabeth II and free tickets on TWA flights worldwide...
...must applaud the restraint of Japanese Prime Minister Nakasone [Jan. 24] in not saying, "If Americans made cars, TVs and calculators more attractive to the consumer than ours, the U.S. would not have a trade problem...
...brand-new baby, American Bell Inc., are beseeching customers to buy telephones instead of leasing them, and even to plug more of them into their homes. Department, specialty and discount stores are getting into the act too, stacking shiny new phones next to the portable TVs and toaster ovens...