Word: watching
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...timely move is being led by Societe Suisse de Microelectronique et d'Horlogerie, originator of the popular quartz Swatch Watch. The company has - produced six prototypes of a mechanical, self-winding version of the Swatch, which will probably go on sale next year for about $40. Though quartz models constituted 90% of Swiss-made watches last year, the mechanical versions could account for half of all sales...
...three centuries. Because troops stationed in Beijing might not comply with orders out of sympathy with the hunger strikers, the forces were drawn from nearby provinces. Many of the soldiers were peasant boys who had spent the previous week in camps outside the city. Forbidden to read newspapers or watch television, they were not aware of how much support the hunger strikers had attracted...
...Watch out, Dallas and Dynasty. Repeating a formula it originated last fall, New England Telephone last week launched two drama-packed TV advertising mini- series that could almost pass for prime-time soaps. Last year similar ads sparked a furor. Their novelty attracted attention and a faithful following. But Adweek magazine columnist John Carroll charged they were "overwrought" and handed them the publication's Badvertising Award. Besides, if viewers must cling to the edge of their seats awaiting the next installment, when will they find time to raid the refrigerator...
...Special Committee on Investigations reports that one oil company may have stolen as much as 1.9 million bbl., worth $31 million, from the tribes since 1986. In hearings before the committee last week, investigators told of concealing themselves near remote oil-storage depots in Oklahoma earlier this spring to watch employees of Wichita-based Koch Industries transferring oil from Osage tribal storage tanks to trucks. According to witnesses, Koch employees typically reported removing only 100 bbl. of oil for every 101 bbl. actually taken. Arizona's Democratic Senator Dennis DeConcini, chairman of the committee, said he would refer the matter...
...love it? At Tracks, a trendy New York City nightclub, the crowd gathers around the dance floor to watch a group called the House of Extravaganza do its stuff. The dancers, dressed in outrageous outfits, wave their hands languorously in time with the music, suck in their cheeks, stare icily into space and strut as if they were high-fashion models on the runways. Forget break dancing. So long to hiphop. At the hottest clubs in Manhattan, on MTV and at Paris fashion shows, the ultra-hip are into vogueing...