Word: 1980s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...montage clips dated back to the late 1980s--a period marked by the beginning of the international recognition of the developing AIDS crisis--and depicted Mann as one of the first members of the global health community to perceive the severity of the daunting virus...
Unlike Psion, which produced the first digital organizer in the 1980s, Microsoft's entry into the world of palmtop computing began only three years ago, when the company rolled out Windows CE, a relative of the company's ubiquitous operating system now found on more than 90% of personal computers. Microsoft then signed up 10 manufacturers, including Hewlett-Packard, Sharp and Philips, to make hand-held computers to its specifications. Following the huge success of the Palm Pilot, the tiny organizer that uses a plastic pen instead of a keyboard, Microsoft enlisted another eight manufacturers to make a competing version...
...Corp. in Kaneohe, Hawaii. The portable, 5-lb. units inflate to form smoke-free plastic "cocoons" around instrument panels and windshields. Pilots activate the systems--there are two in each cockpit--after donning oxygen masks and goggles. Says mechanical engineer Bertil Werjefelt, who invented the device in the late 1980s and is president of VisionSafe: "There should never be a question for a second whether or not the pilots are able...
Despite such criticisms of the University,Mandela displayed appreciation for theanti-apartheid activism that dominated Harvard'scampus in the 1980s...
While some work in South Africa did occur in the 1980s and earlier, it tended to focus on the problems of apartheid and on strategies for the country's future, said Robert I. Rothberg, development associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID...