Word: alpha
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...week's end analysts were asking whether the Digital action was an honest plea for justice or just the bared-fang attack of a cornered and wounded animal. The tottering hardware giant had bet heavily on its $2.5 billion Alpha microprocessor to return it to prosperity. Alpha is unquestionably the fastest chip on the market, but its speed hasn't overcome Intel's marketing clout. In 1996, according to Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Mercury Research, Intel shipped some 65 million Pentium chips, or 76% of the microprocessor market, compared with 200,000 Alphas. And this year looks grimmer still: 18 million...
Last November, Alpha-Iota Chapter President James T. Engell '73, who is also professor of English and comparative literature, told The Crimson that the selection process is "gender blind...
Until July 1995, male and female students were selected separately for admission to the honor society. The selection process for the male Alpha and female Iota chapters was merged in accordance with the integration of Harvard and Radcliffe colleges, according to Kobrinsky...
...think of it as a great honor," said Ramesh O. Johari '98, a math concentrator who was selected to join the Alpha chapter of the academic honor society. "It's one of those things that's a nice piece of luck that comes along and reflects ... hard work over [the] years...
...Governor Zell Miller. In 1993 Tompkins wrote, "On April 3 [the day before the killing], King returned to Memphis. Army agents from the 111th Military Intelligence Group shadowed his movements and monitored radio traffic from a sedan crammed with electronic equipment. Eight Green Beret soldiers from an 'Operation Detachment Alpha 184 Team' were also in Memphis carrying out an unknown mission." Although Tompkins wrote that he had "uncovered no hard evidence that Army Intelligence played any role in King's assassination," Pepper takes the tale to the races. Pepper writes that the soldiers were in Memphis to shoot King...