Word: tvs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kistler 25, an unemployed baker; and Dalton Young, 23, an unemployed veteran. They settled onto the platform on Sept. 20. Sponsors gave each one a tent, radio, sleeping bag, portable toilet, telephone and an electronic game. Although they have their own heaters, under the rules they cannot have TVs, alcohol or, with occasional brief exceptions, visitors. Their families hoist up food and water in buckets attached to a rope...
...Even though I look very small, you will have noticed by now that my black-and-white image is sharp and clear whether you are using batteries or the plug-in adapter provided with the set. A number of small-screen TVs are now on the market, but none can match Watchman's remarkable compactness. The ⅝%-in.-thick picture tube achieves its thinness through a significant technological twist. Instead of beaming electrons from some distance behind the tube face, as do conventional sets, Watchman's emitting gun rests alongside the tube and shoots the electrons across...
...Begin government had been accused of mismanagement of the economy. Confronted with widespread discontent over Israel's triple-digit inflation during his re-election campaign last year, Begin appointed Yoram Aridor as Finance Minister and gave him a mandate to lower taxes on such luxury items as color TVs and household appliances, a short-term ploy that helped the Likud win the election-but only at the cost of rekindled inflation a few months later...
...bigger than its forebears: the Watchman is a television-and a flat one at that. Using a new 1¼in. black-and-white picture tube that looks like a pygmy canoe paddle, Sony has turned out a set that is more streamlined and less bulky than existing tiny TVs. The Watchman, with a 2-in. screen and sleek metallic finish, not only looks good everywhere but can work just about anywhere too, from a dentist's chair to a box at the opera. It can be powered by batteries, household current, even a car's cigarette lighter...
Japan's Sony Corp. has stunned the world with an array of products ranging from the first pocket-size FM radio and the first portable videotape recorder to tummy TVs and the Walkman tape player. Last week Sony Chairman Akio Morita, 60, showed off his latest marvel: the Mavica, a still camera that looks and feels like a conventional 35-mm camera but takes color pictures without film. Morita grandly called the camera the greatest innovation in photography since Louis Daguerre invented the silvered copper plate print...