Word: advent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advent of such integrated circuits (ICs) drastically reduced the size, cost and electrical drain of any equipment in which they were used. One immediate byproduct: a new generation of small, desk-size minicomputers as well as larger, high-speed machines. Their speed resided in the rate at which electric current races through wire: about one foot per billionth of a second, close to the velocity of light. Even so, an electrical pulse required a significant fraction of a second to move through the miles of wiring in the early, large computers. Now even circuitous routes through IC chips could...
...traveled around Europe and America in various vaudeville troupes until, in 1913, he stopped in Hollywood, intrigued with the infant film industry. At first he played bit parts in chaotic one-reelers, but within two years he became Hollywood's leading star. In his most productive period, before the advent of talkies in 1927, he turned out such brilliant films as The Gold Rush, The Kid and The Tramp. Soon he was the most recognized celebrity in the world...
...employers realized that Puerto Ricans could be hard workers despite language difficulties, the barriers to factory work eased, Santiago says. Currently Cambridge industrial concerns such as Nabisco and Polaroid, and the newer electronics companies such as Advent and Cambion all hire significant numbers of Spanish-speaking employees...
Time Magazine, always quick to proclaim the national mood, predicted recently that the advent of the videotape machine will force homeowners in the future to build their own "media centers" to accomodate the television and its ever-growing number of accessories. But, until the price of the videotapes comes down some from the $1000 mark, shouts of a video revolution are probably a bit premature. Catching the last half of "Charlie's Angels" just isn't that important...
Before the advent of colonialism, the Africans had lived in tribal groups. The social structure was purely communalistic. The tribal headman or chief established the legitimacy of his authority either by birth or by his prowess in battle. All the other paid their loyalty to him. The chief in turn was answerable to a council of elders. Every individual was a part of the decision-making body. And a chief could easily be deposed either by a decision of the majority or by the elders, if they found him tyrannical--an event that is almost impossible in present day Africa...