Word: advent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...WITH THE ADVENT of "Slow Train Coming" nearly three years ago, Bob Dylan was relegated to the "Religious Recordings" section of many record shops. The subsequent apparition of "Saved" only served to confirm that the writer of "Like a Rolling Stone"-a six-minute single that said everything that needed to be said about the social revolution of the '60s-had become an overzealous Christian. Perhaps this explains why few took notice when Dylan's latest effort, "Shot of Love", materialized in August. And that's a shame, because the former Mr. Zimmerman has given us a valuable, if somewhat...
...elementary education. The miracle never arrived. In the 1970s manufacturers spent millions of dollars to develop computers for use in schools, but most of the systems received dismal grades on teacher report cards. The machines were too expensive, their performance unreliable, their programs academically inadequate. But lately, with the advent of the more sophisticated microcomputers, prices have fallen and performance has vastly improved...
...younger members of the Rockefeller family decided that they wanted a part of the action, a broader risk fund called Venrock was created in 1969. It has since made lucrative investments in both Intel, a successful semiconductor manufacturer, and Apple Computer. One venture that did not work out was Advent Corp., which filed for bankruptcy when its big-screen TV sets did not sell. Admits Managing Partner Peter Crisp, 48: "We have some companies that have lost money, of course, but no really big bloopers...
...portion of the television-news audience reads no newspapers or magazines and learns whatever it knows of events from television alone. Some estimate this group at 20% to 30% of all television-news watchers. These are people at the lower end of the scale, economically and educationally. Before the advent of television news, this group was not much interested in news at all and was both stable in its opinions and passive in its political behavior. Robinson calls such people an "inadvertent audience" for news. Pollster Daniel Yankelovich thinks that an audience of that kind, forming attitudes about subjects...
...comparing lists of about 30-35 names each. Van der Eb, a business executive from Chicago, was the one to include Watson on his list. "I was hoping for a leading businessman with qualities beyond the qualities of business," recalls Van der Eb. "I felt that with the advent of the '80s and the emphasis on the reindustrialization of America, the revitalization of the economy, the repositioning of the U.S. in world trade, I should be looking for a person familiar with American industry," he adds, citing in particular his worry over America's lack of competitiveness...