Word: units
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Unlike the very successful videotape recorders that are produced by companies like Sony and Panasonic, SelectaVisions cannot copy programs being broadcast, but only play prerecorded discs. Even so, RCA has bet that at $500 a unit, the price would lure buyers away from videotape recorders that can sell for twice as much...
...range from fairly good to fairly disappointing. None is within a light-year of the best arcade games in color, sound or action. Manufacturers seem to be aware of these shortcomings; add-on voice simulators and cartridges to work them are on the way, and Atari promises a $349 unit that will give its console powerful additional circuitry...
...young man who does the glimpsing is Brideshead's narrator, Charles Ryder (Irons), who finds his army unit bivouacked by coincidence on the grounds he knows so well. He had been introduced to the house years earlier by one of its inhabitants, Sebastian Flyte (Andrews), an Oxford classmate renowned for "his beauty, which was arresting, and his eccentricities of behaviour, which seemed to know no bounds." In the flashbacks arising from Ryder's bittersweet memories, Sebastian gives long, champagne-inspired lunches in his rooms and, in an extravagant undergraduate fantasy, carries with him everywhere a large Teddy bear...
Watson and linemates Greg Olson and Greg Chalmers, playing their first game as a unit after Cleary's complete shakeup of lines, managed half a dozen shots on goal in their next shift, but a Camisa glove save of a pop-up and other acts of God prevented a score. In all, Harvard managed 22 third-period shots with Britz's tally the only interest on the deposit. "Too little, too late," said Cleary...
...market value of a general investment unit increased to $140.50 on June 30, 1981 from $135.10 one year earlier and $97.60 on June 30, 1970 when the unit system was established. Net general investment income earned during the year was $113,068,000, or $9.52 per unit. Total return from income and appreciation was $14.92 per unit, or 11.0% of average unit value. Of the investment income earned in 1981, 75.4% will be distributed to participating funds during the year beginning on July 1, 1981 through a distribution of $7.18 per unit while the balance $2.34 per unit will...