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Cape Cod tourism

Description: Business and tourism are off on Cape Cod. Passengers wait for ferry. Driving across bridge over canal. UPS logo on truck.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/12/1989

Capital gains tax

Description: Gov. Dukakis would raise capital gains tax. James Braude agrees it would be progressive, equitable. Howard Foley says it will cause loss of business from state.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/09/1989

Car dealer on Washington's Birthday

Description: Tracking shot of new Dodge trucks and vans parked on dealer lot with snow. Interview with car shoppers in Chrysler showroom. "Sold" tag on windshield. Interview with dealer about sales on Washington's Birthday. Rebate sign.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/18/1980

Car dealers, NOW accounts

Description: Libon Motors Volkswagen dealer on Western Avenue in Allston. New and used VWs on lot. Window sticker with itemized price. Inside showroom at Porter Chevrolet. “OK” used car lot near Fresh Pond, Cambridge. Coolidge Bank in Harvard Square. Cool-O-Mat automated teller machines (ATMs). Suffolk Franklin Bank. Boylston-Fairfield branch of Shawmut Bank in Back Bay. Sign for NOW checking account paying 5% interest at Home Savings Bank.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/24/1978

Cash register transactions

Description: Tight shots of many customers' hands paying for merchandise with dollars at checkout counter of discount store. Sound effect of old fashioned cash register. Transaction with BankAmericard (Visa). Cashier places credit card and charge slip on sliding metal plate to make impression of number; then checks printed list of invalid account numbers. Reporter explains different ways to pay including cash and check, and the increasing availability of charge cards or electronic money.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/11/1977

Chelsea

Description: Prop 2 1/2 Chelsea, MA; Fire Devastation; Chelsea Industry; Tobin Bridge.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/21/1981

Christmas retail season

Description: Sears cuts prices to make up for slow start of Christmas retail season. Shoppers. Sale signs. Woman writes check. Laser gun scans price tag at cash register. Store entrance.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/24/1990

City Council, Shawmut, mine workers

Description: Boston City Council sympathizes with striking Virginia coal miners by voting to close city's accounts with Shawmut Bank, whose vice chair is a Pittston trustee. David Scondras.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/26/1989

Computer Mart in Waltham

Description: Inside Computer Mart in Waltham. Customer tries out Sorcerer program. Employee in back room tinkers with electronic components. Stands display personal computing magazines and manuals. Altair 8800 CPU. Printer types left to right and right to left. Strip mall storefront with 'for lease' sign. Interview with proprietor about outgrowing the location because personal computer business has multiplied rapidly. He sells systems to hobbyists and small businesses in cost range of $1,000 to $20,000.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/20/1978

Computer hacker Richard Stallman

Description: Computer programmer Richard Stallman, known as a premier 'hacker' and winner of a MacArthur grant, tells of his lifelong fascination with computers and his crusade to stop software monopolies.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/28/1991