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This project together with his involvement in lighting for the upcoming Loeb Ex show, Six Characters in Search of an Author should keep him from feeling the letdown he expects when his first Harvard produced play closes. "It's a let down that a play can just disappear I know it won't be the old chestnut type of play that will make people say Let's do Common Knowledge again...
...costs have caused the manufacturers' profits to vaporize. Industry experts predict that perhaps one-fourth of the video-game competitors will go out of business. Says Michael Ayers, director of corporate communications at Activision: "A lot of guys who got in for the fast buck are going to disappear." Some firms have already flashed the GAME OVER sign. Quaker Oats closed its U.S. Games division in April after a year in the market. "None of our games became a hit," says Spokesman Ronald Bottrell. "Instead of pouring in a lot more capital, we decided to drop it." Data...
...from weather satellites drew a rapt audience of oceanographers and meteorologists. Reason: the transmissions showed that a villainous, once-in-a-century temperature rise in the waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean, which scientists blame for a costly year of cockeyed weather around the globe, has finally begun to disappear...
Still trying to rebuild its house after the eruption caused by the IBM PC is Osborne Computer (1982 sales: $100 million). Osborne is one of several companies that have seen profits slip or disappear since the introduction of the PC. Concedes Founder and Chairman Adam Osborne: "The rapid emergence of the IBM standard was far more than we anticipated. IBM did it with an awesome speed, which took most people unawares...
...competitive spirit does not disappear, however. It is merely redirected toward competing corporations. Most Japanese spend their entire careers with a single company and develop an intense loyalty that can be even stronger than family ties. A Japanese diplomat in New York recalls what happened when his brother joined Mitsubishi Corp., the giant trading company: "Mitsubishi's competitors became his enemies, even more so than the Soviet Union." The desire to beat the opposition for the glory of his company is a powerful force that motivates the Japanese worker...