Word: tvs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...money. The rich have the same limit; it just takes longer to get there. Stories abound of well-heeled users smoking their way through trust funds, savings accounts and charge-card credit lines. Some take out second mortgages and go on to sell jewelry and household items like TVs, VCRs and answering machines...
Zenith had expanded into computers to reduce its reliance on TVs, a business that low-cost foreign producers were beginning to dominate. The company bought the electronics-kit maker Heath in 1979 and expanded the division to include a line of laptop computers. Zenith's machines are now among the world's best sellers, bringing in about 60% of the company's revenues of $2.7 billion. With this deal, Bull will become the largest European-based computer maker...
...that matter, who has been more insistent that parents should "interfere" in what their children are doing, Tipper Gore or Jesse Jackson? All through the 1970s, Jackson was traveling the high schools, telling parents to turn off TVs, make the kids finish their homework, check with teachers on their performance, get to know what the children are doing. This kind of "interference" used to be called education...
...after the New York City blackout and filmed the looting. Even then, Lee's cinematic eye was drawn to the absurdity of events that unfolded around him. "In a lot of ways it was funny to me, like Christmas," he says. "People were walking out of stores with color TVs...
...lessons learned at school can easily be undermined by today's popular culture. The messages that blare from stereos, TVs and movie screens amount to a second education for the young. And much more money goes into the development of this after-school curriculum than goes into education. Rock * stars earn millions, but a high-school teacher is lucky to get $30,000 a year...