After the Vietnam War, many Pentagon contractors poured billions into the production of buses, yachts, solar energy and even VCRs, only to fail to penetrate a market.
The movie studios launched a similar, failed legal assault on Sony's VCRs two decades ago, resulting in a landmark Supreme Court decision in Sony's favor in 1984.
The earth does not revolve around the Sun; it revolves around me!), which means when there's a cock-up like there was this evening, when my VCR, an early wood-burning model Betamax, actually hand-signed by Max himself, failed to record tonight's edition of Survivor: Tocantins, it can't be my error.
25 As shown in Figure 7, we observed that the expression levels of GLS1 carboxy terminal splice variant (glutaminase C, GAC) and ASNS significantly differed between L‐ANSase‐sensitive plus VCR‐resistant patients and L‐ANSase‐resistant plus VCR‐sensitive patients, while we failed to observe clear differences for other molecules (Fig. 7a).
VCR or DOX resistance might convert NCAM triggered cell adhesion in some but not in all tumor subpopulations, or in some but not in all tumor patients where chemotherapy has failed.
"Movie Rentals Fade, Forcing an Industry to Change Its Focus" (front page, May 6) says the downturn in movie rentals per VCR household "signals a retrenchment for the video industry," but fails to mention that while rentals per household are declining, industrywide rentals overall are still increasing steadily each year, because the number of new VCR households continues to grow.
Although Pakistanis between them own perhaps 9m televisions, 3m VCRs and 500,000 satellite dishes which all require a licence government inspectors fail to persuade even 1m of them to pay up, generating a measly 240m Pakistani rupees ($4.8m) or so of revenue each year.In desperation, the right-wing government of Nawaz Sharif put licence collection out to public tender this year.
