Word: zoom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...market one year ago, took off faster than any other personal computer since the launch of IBM's PC in 1981. Apple so far has sold more than 275,000 Macintoshes. The company, the symbol of U.S. entrepreneurial innovation, saw profits in the first quarter of fiscal 1985 zoom to $46.1 million, an eightfold gain from the same period in 1984. Yet Macintosh (basic price: $2,195) and its maker have a serious handicap. Many Macintosh buyers have been Apple's characteristic flannel-shirt clientele--students, hackers and do-it-yourselfers--who make up only one-third...
...owner of Via Dolce Confectioners in suburban Los Angeles, which makes Robin Rose ice cream. Her experience shows how people's views are shaped by the price hikes that affect them. Rose watched the wild black raspberries that give tang to her bestselling raspberry chocolate truffle flavor zoom from $31 per gal. to $107.50 per gal. after last year's harsh winter nearly destroyed the crop. To recover the extra cost, she tacks a 25? surcharge onto each scoop of the ice cream. Says Rose, a graduate of the University of Chicago Business School and a former student...
Sidewinders and Sparrows are the bread and butter of America's air-to-air fighting capability: the $59,000 Sidewinder missile can zoom toward targets within an elevenmile range at twice the speed of sound; the $169,000 Sparrow missile is able to hit a target 31 miles away. But according to Frank Conahan, an investigator for Congress's General Accounting Office, one-quarter of the Navy's and Air Force's Sidewinders and one-third of their Sparrows are "unserviceable." Conahan's congressional testimony last week was just another in this year...
...town where life imitates screenplays, business resembles B war movies. Every morning baby moguls strap themselves into their BMWs and zoom off to wage battle and make deals at the studios...
...quarter of its income. Now the figure is one-third, and it is still rising. Banks and savings and loan associations have attempted to get more Americans into homes through new methods of financing, like adjustable-rate mortgages. These keep the initial payments down, but the monthly cost can zoom higher when interest rates rise. As a result of these developments, more and more Americans seem destined to continue renting and continue dreaming...