Word: walkman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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American firms are also beginning to capitalize on their strong points. "Service is an unappreciated American specialty," says Eric Lesin, president of AAC Systems, based in Pasadena, California, a company that sells computerized cost-control systems for large telephone networks. "Sony can snap out a Walkman, but they can't send you a technician to fix it." The priority given by foreign buyers to quality and service allows American exporters to de-emphasize price cutting, which is one reason export-related jobs in the U.S. pay on average 17% more than jobs that produce goods sold only domestically...
...ably maintains the balance between the literal Elizabethan text and the modern preppie kindergarten created in this production. For example, it makes perfect sense in this version that the two main courtiers, Berowne and Rosaline, would flirt while playing basketball and that the swain Costard would listen to a Walkman while he worked. The chaotic profusion of toys (everything from a Mr. Potato Head to a Rubiks Cube gets used in the course of the production) only heightens the artificiality of the perfect kingdom Navarre and his friends are trying to establish...
...tourists may rent a tour tape, walkman, and small map for 24 hours at a time, said Melissa Radin, a Cushing representative. Tapes run about 40-45 minutes long and the entire tour lasts about one and a half hours at a normal walking pace, Radin said...
...Walkman on and I heard something so loud I shut it off," said Terence P. Mann '96, who was standing outside of Au Bon Pain. "Then there were four guys who ran down Dunster and one guy chasing them...
...there is mounting evidence that even these gadgets may be putting aircraft at risk. A Walkman-type radio tuned to an FM station generates oscillations that can extend 5 ft. to 12 ft. -- far enough, in some planes, to reach the navigation equipment stowed in and around the cockpit. "With their thick wires and vacuum tubes, the old planes probably wouldn't feel a thing," ) says Bruce Nordwall, avionics editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology. "But the low-power circuits in modern aircraft are much more susceptible to interference...