Word: zenith
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cello, and Sukie Rougemont writes a gossip column for the local paper. These friends meet almost every Thursday, as a coven of genuine, practicing witches: "In the right mood and into their third drinks they could erect a cone of power above them like a tent to the zenith...
Other firms are joining in. Data General, Digital Equipment, Hewlett-Packard and Zenith are granting college administrators computer discounts of up to 75%. Hewlett-Packard offered to donate ten machines to each of 14 California high school districts, and last month Digital announced it would be giving $1.1 million worth of equipment to 46 schools in New England...
...geopolitical crisis was on the horizon. The theme behind most of the stopovers on Shultz's itinerary was democratic transition. Taken together, the visits - to El Salvador, Venezuela, Brazil, Grenada and Barbados - emphasized a hemispheric watershed. Authoritarian rule in the Americas has been gradually descending from its zenith...
Sony's troubles stem from a disastrous slump in sales of its Betamax videotape recorder, which in 1983 accounted for 41% of the company's sales. Last week Zenith announced that it would no longer sell Sony's machine under its brand name. Zenith thus joins companies such as Toshiba and NEC that have abandoned Sony's videotape system in favor of the VHS method developed by archrival Matsushita (1982 sales: $15.7 billion), which sells products in the U.S. under the National, Quasar and Panasonic brand names. Says one industry watcher in Tokyo: "Zenith...
...Sergeant Ann Glavin, in charge of the computer system there, says police operations are "streamlined and smoother" since the installation in October of a Zenith datasystems computer...