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...things, TV sets in Japan, and embarrassed Sony executives had no choice but to comply. So, while Americans continue to buy great numbers of Sony and other Japanese TV sets, Motorola is about to give Sony some com petition in the Japanese mar ket for large-screen color TVs...
...taxes will raise the Tokyo price of Motorola Quasars to a range of $750 to $1,250, or 25% more than they cost in the U.S.-but that will still be below the introductory prices of $1,750 to $1,800 expected on Sony and Matsushita big-screen color TVs...
Worst Aspect. Devaluation of the dollar would not necessarily be bad for the U.S. Prices of such items as Lowenbrau beer and Sony TVs would rise, but American exports would become cheaper for foreigners to buy. Trouble is, new currency changes might not be enough to defer further crises, because revaluations and devaluations can take a long time to make their effects felt. Many U.S. exports are high-technology products-computers and jetliners, for example-that do not always realize a quick increase in sales when the price comes down. Many U.S. imports, such as inexpensive radios, have little domestic...
...many ways, Spain is belatedly catching up with its neighbors. Only a generation ago, Spanish girls were not allowed out without duennas; today they roam alone in miniskirts on the street and bikinis on the beach. Some working-class families, for the first time have telephones, refrigerators and TVs, and every sizable city has a traffic jam. Spaniards, in short, are changing far more quickly and easily than their institutions, which are showing increasing strains. Items...
...large increase in the student and transient population in Cambridge has aggravated another problem--crime. Cambridge's densely populated, high turnover areas of young people attract burglars from all over the Boston area. Robbers find the-high quality stereos or TVs most young people own easy to make off with in this area where few people know their neighbors. George Powers, planning and research officer for the Cambridge City Police, said that burglaries are much less frequent in both the working class communities of East and North Cambridge and in the wealthy Brattle St. area. "These are stable, family communities...