Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...junior forward's team-leading 41st point ofthe season couldn't have come at a better time.With 21 seconds left in regulation and the gametied, 4-4, Vukonich stuffed linemate John Murphy'scrossing pass home, sending Harvard to its secondstraight Beanpot final...
...Representative Chester Atkins (D-MA) spoke of An Wang, a refugee from Shang-Hai who founded Wang Laboratories in Atkins' home district, Lowell, as an example of how immigrants can flourish in local economies...
None of this comes cheap. A bare-bones home theater costs $400 for the A/V box, $700 for a stereo TV, $800 or more for a laser videodisc player and upwards of $1,500 for a five-speaker surround-sound system. And it is ruinously easy to spend $10,000 to $50,000 re-creating an RKO theater in a suburban ranch home. Yet the number of consumers who are trying to do just that has launched a booming market for audio/video installers: entrepreneurs who select and hook up the latest gear, often using wall-mounted speakers and sleek cabinetry...
...before surround-sound TV becomes a mass-market phenomenon like the Walkman or the VCR. Unlike those breakthrough products, which instantly transformed electronic life, the new TV systems are likely to be perceived by consumers as a more gradual -- though inevitable -- improvement. Moreover, the Walkman did not require major home remodeling to work its magic. At the Winter Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last month, Mitsubishi demonstrated a 120-in. rear-projection TV set that calls for a 6 1/2-ft. space to be cleared out behind a wall before the set can be installed in a home...
...still lies in black urban communities, and it is from such communities in Los Angeles, in Seattle, in Miami, that the new talent is rising. "Hip-hop is a black thing," says Fab 5 Freddy. "But if you want to get with it, come on over." Yo, home. Listen...