Word: walkmen
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Dates: during 1986-1986
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Upperclass rooms typically have one stereo in the common room, and most house residents have also invested in boom boxes or walkmen with speakers for their bedrooms...
...almost all Harvard students have walk-men, no matter what they have in their rooms. Walkmen, which retail from $20 to $150, are probably the biggest sellers among students, say managers at several local sterco stores...
Although boom boxes and walkmen with speakers do give a similar sound, the box's portability makes it more popular with students. "A box is a good way to get a group together for a study party outside," says Cathy M. Dale '90. The Matthews Hall resident took advantage of yesterday's sunny weather to use her box in Harvard Yard for just that purpose...
...appears hopelessly out of touch with society, people take it seriously. We went to the Rangoon train station to try to get a Burmese to buy us train tickets instead of doing it at Tourist Burma at the official rate. The same people who wanted to buy our dollars, Walkmen, cassettes, cosmetics, T-shirts and even underwear, wouldn't touch our money to break that rule. It's as though the government tacitly cedes certain areas to the black market, and the people steadfastly leave the other areas alone. So we were able to convince every hotel not to stamp...