Word: youths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popular line of "Executive" calculators in Europe and the U.S. But in 1975 such electronic giants as Texas Instruments and Japan's Casio captured most of the market and drove down calculator prices. Meanwhile Sinclair had introduced the Black Watch, a digital wristwatch aimed at the British youth market. Demand was high, but the firm that supplied the integrated circuits could not produce them in sufficient numbers. Watch and calculator losses transformed a profit of $530,000 on sales of $13.3 million in fiscal 1975 to a deficit of $640,000 on sales of $10 million...
...know about the subject. Its primary goal, says the WETA team, is to combat the lack of music education in schools today. "The state of teaching is at best haphazard," says Sidlin, who taught in public schools for seven years and has subsequently entertained young audiences at over 350 youth concerts. "In some schools now they must justify retaining a music teacher by saying that songs help teach math or reading or science," he complains. "But what in the world is the matter with teaching music for music's sake...
...look less than gorgeous. Electra may be a mixed-up lady; she does not have to be a visual horror. As Idamante, Mezzo Maria Ewing sang with enough splendor to suggest that the gods had blessed her early and often. Unhappily, she had been garbed too boyishly for the youth capable of slaying a sea monster and making women swoon...
Bruce A. Redding '78 said yesterday he was going up to his room in the Mather House Tower when he "heard a car wreck." Reddix said he then approached the Mather House fence in time to hear Harvard Police officer Thomas Sinas tell the fleeing youth to stop...
Redding participated along with Harvard and Cambridge police in a three-block-long chase which eventually led to the youth's house, where he was apprehended...