Word: cosmopolitan
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Matsushita is cautious but forward looking. The company has never had Sony's cosmopolitan polish, yet it was Matsushita's subsidiary JVC that developed the original VHS video technology in 1976. Tanii, then the youthful chief of Matsushita's fledgling VCR division, convinced his superiors that consumers would choose VHS over Sony's Betamax if they could also buy compatible videotaped entertainment...
...name like "Yellow," "Unity" or "Season," of course, one has to learn to deal with a lot of bad jokes. Breen recalls being called Purple in elementary school. Johnson says that her name has often been distorted into "you nutty." And McGill says jokesters have occasionally dubbed her "Cosmopolitan" amd "Ebony...
...Despite being a third-generation Atlantan, I tried as hard as I could to make sure nothing about me--not my accent, not my political beliefs, not my musical taste, not my style of dress--could possibly betray me as Southern. In my mind, the entire Northeast was a cosmopolitan Manhattan and the entire South (except, of course, for my neighborhood) was a 1980s-era Mayberry...
...that pizazz, however, is only frosting on the cake for Houston. The city is in the third year of a brisk economic recovery that is transforming the fourth largest U.S. city (pop. 1.7 million) from a freewheeling oil-and-gas town to a more broadly based cosmopolitan center. Energy still constitutes 60% of the economy, but that is down from 83% in 1981. Boasts Mayor Kathy Whitmire: "We are no longer a one-industry town...
...sports car in years has so quickly won the hearts of U.S. car buffs as Mazda's pert Miata MX-5. But Detroit automakers are not content to sit back and watch foreign roadsters whiz by. Next month Ford will begin selling its own cosmopolitan contender, the Mercury Capri. The car's body was designed in Italy, and its engine and chassis were developed jointly by Ford and Mazda. The Detroit automaker has a 25% stake in the Japanese company. The convertible, which will be built at a Ford plant near Melbourne, will be the first Australian-made car sold...