Word: yamahas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...itself includes hands-on instruction in both analog and digital electronics. Analog systems use electronic oscillators, filters, tapes, and other means to create and manipulate sounds. Digital electronics, in contrast, use computers to create, reproduce, and modify sounds. Harvard's array of digital equipment in Paine Hall includes a Yamaha DX7 synthesizer, a Mirage synthesizer, and an Apple Macintosh computer, as well as a rack of digital effects, mixers, and tape decks. Through an electronic interface called MIDI, the computer can be used to sequence the various synthesizers and to modify sonic waveforms. One interesting feature of the Mirage...
...There are a lot of musicians, science majors, and math majors. Dunster, however, throws awesome parties. If you like diversity, Dunster has it. As for stereotypes, we have Pioneer, Nakamichi, Yamaha...all sorts...
Golf carts were conceived as simple, functional machines that would ferry players around courses that often stretched for three or four sinuous miles. Now, however, more and more linksters prefer to ride in style. Japan's Yamaha, which is becoming the deluxe class of fairway transport, has just introduced the fanciest, priciest cart ever to cruise past a clubhouse. Called the Sun Classic, this "golf car," as Yamaha refers to it, sells for $4,230 and comes with tinted windshield, headlights with high beams, self-canceling turn signals, brake and tail lights, adjustable seats and chrome wheels with < whitewall tires...
...Classic is likely to be an especially big hit in retirement communities that allow people to drive golf carts on public streets. In Sun City West, Ariz., Yamaha Dealer Ned Lee says, carts have become a major mode of transportation. He adds, "Here, parking lots have spaces marked just for golf carts...
...last year, death threats fell down upon Colombia's Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla, who had been leading a lone crusade against his country's bustling $5 billion-a-year cocaine trade. Less than two months later, in the streets of Bogota, two young hit men on a red Yamaha motorcycle pulled up alongside Lara's white Mercedes-Benz and pumped seven bullets into the 38-year-old minister. The killing electrified Colombia and enraged its government. "We've had enough," said President Belisario Betancur Cuartas, trembling with anger during his elegy to the slain minister. With that, Betancur declared...