Word: videos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vail do not ski: "They want to shop or go ice skating." To amuse family members whose interest in alpine skiing is less than fanatic, resort managers are building elaborate tennis and racquetball courts, heated pools, co-ed Jacuzzis, ice rinks and-say it isn't so, Sepp-video-game rooms...
...four they get on real snow. Instruction has changed too. Says a Keystone pro: "It used to be, 'Bend your knees and follow me.' Now I tell them where to go for a good pizza or where the video games are. It's part...
...much early promise. Several had indifferent school records and drifted until some spark propelled them toward supersuccess. Yet all were independent enough to start or finance a new venture and canny enough to find fields ripe for development. Some profited from high technology and built companies that produce computers, video terminals or computer software. Others found fortunes in more traditional fields such as manufacturing and medicine. Still others turned to Wall Street not to raise money but to capitalize on new ways of analyzing stocks and sending stock information. Among the biggest winners in the new-issues market...
...truck. After arriving in the U.S., he paid his way through college working as a dishwasher and waiter in Lake Tahoe casinos. Hwang gained business experience by running a 7-Eleven store in San Jose, Calif., and then in 1975 used his savings of $9,000 to start making video games in his Cupertino, Calif., garage...
Sony may eventually have to give up on today's war and get on with fighting the new one developing for smaller video-tape recorders, which operate with narrow, 8-mm tape. Several companies, including such competitors as Hitachi, Toshiba and Sony's old nemesis Matsushita, are planning to produce their own 8-mm machines. In the past week alone, RCA and General Electric both jumped into the 8-mm market. Sony must make certain that the upcoming 8-mm Shootout does not become a ruinous reprise of the Beta battle. -By Michael Moritz...