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...deal will make Matsushita the third biggest seller of TV sets in the U.S., trailing only Zenith and RCA and easily surpassing its two Japanese rivals, Sony and Hitachi. One executive of a Japanese competitor exclaimed that the news was as "sensational" as "Toyota buying out Ford" would...
...year ran up sales of about $240 million, or 6% to 7% of the U.S. total. Added to Matsushita's sales of Panasonic products, which will continue through a separate distribution network, they will give Matsushita about 15% of the American TV market, v. about 23% each for Zenith and RCA. Matsushita is also stealing a march on its archrival Sony, both in the U.S. and Japan. It will acquire three Motorola plants in the U.S. and one in Canada, giving it a North American manufacturing base far larger than that of Sony, which became the first Japanese...
...doubt the Harvard mystique produces twangs of inadequacy--I'll probably be the dumbest one there--if not out and out intimidation, and with it, your gullibility has probably touched its all time zenith...
...MANY historians, the over sixty year reign of Queen Victoria represents the zenith of the British Empire. Yet, as all too many Englishmen discovered, the Victorian era was perhaps also one of the cruelest periods of British history--cruel not in the sense of physical abuse such as the English had been forced to suffer under the Tudors, but cruel in its absolute lack of tolerance for those who refused to strictly follow the "prim and proper" moral dictates of society. Those prominent Victorians whose lifestyle deviated from society's norms lived in the fear of finding Scotland Yard daily...
...something I didn't need to do," that there was "too much movement. Too much 'looking for' something." Yet even to learn that, he felt, the journey had been worth it. Later in the day he seemed profoundly content. "The sun is high, at the zenith. Clear soft sound of a temple bell, far down in the valley. Voices of children near the cottages above me on the mountainside. The sun is warm. Everything falls into place. Nothing is to be decided. There is nothing to be judged...