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...become known as Sony was getting excited about a new invention from the U.S. called the transistor, MITI chose to help two other firms engaged in making soon-to-be-obsolete vacuum tubes. MITI also had no say in Sony's decisions to market Betamax videocassette recorders and Walkman portable stereos, two of the company's fastest-selling products. Japan is the leading manufacturer of industrial robots, but MITI played no role in financing their development...
...illicit drug from a business associate-but be polite. Baldrige adds that, to avoid making the person uncomfortable, the corporate class act would be to hint that you use drugs-but not this one. The two also agree that anyone who plays the radio while working should get a Walkman if a co-worker objects to the noise...
What the skilled camera sees in Rossellini is the rich texture of a life. Two top fashion photographers make almost identical observations about her. Richard Avedon calls her "a joy to work with-she's the product of an interesting life, not a model wired to a Walkman." Says Bruce Weber: "It's inspiring to shoot a woman who really is a woman, not a teen in woman's clothing. Isabella has turned everything around, making age, depth, experience, substance attractive...
Beepers seem destined to become the most popular portable electronic devices since the Sony Walkman. Apart from teenagers, who would just as soon not stay in touch with their parents, the potential market is huge. The Cambridge, Mass., consulting firm of Arthur D. Little, Inc. estimates that by 1990, 7 million beepers may be in use, compared with 2.5 million today. By the end of the decade, annual sales could reach $86 million and revenues from fees $2.8 billion...
Moviegoers must now trek to the "cine-pare," not "le drive-in," and listen to the "balladeur," a rechristened Walkman French attacks on franglais are by now virtually de rigueur, but the recent assault appears stricter. A court has already leveled a fine of $200 on the Paris Opera, which allowed an American musical using a Paris theater to print its program entirely in English...