Word: alto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans, inevitably, tell sad tales of money running out, no matter what the rate of exchange. Stephanie Marcus, 20, of Palo Alto, Calif., was sitting glumly in the waiting room of the Munich railroad station not long ago, pondering the fact that she had a plane ticket home from London but no money to get there from Munich. "I had hoped to get a job of some kind in Italy, but I hadn't set up anything beforehand," she said ruefully. "Then somebody picked my pocket in Rome, and the problem got serious." (Yes, she is safely back...
...week of electronic eavesdropping at the U.S. embassy in Moscow has again raised questions about the sites chosen for the new Soviet and American embassies being built in each country. After six years of negotiations ending in a 1969 agreement, the Soviets were provided with a location on Mount Alto in northwest Washington, D.C., one of the highest spots in the area, while the U.S. was left to build in low, marshy ground near the Moscow River...
Perhaps the most financially savvy of the independents is Windham Hill, a Palo Alto, Calif., company started nine years ago by Carpenter-Guitarist William Ackerman, then 26. He borrowed $5 from each of 60 friends to record an album of his own called In Search of the Turtle's Navel. From the outset, Ackerman groomed his disks for the baby boom generation, an audience that he felt was growing tired of rock. He recorded melodic albums like Pianist George Winston's Autumn, which cost just $1,720 to produce but has sold more than 500,000 copies. Some critics regard...
...Palo Alto, Calif...
...once it is diagnosed, the key to preventing its spread--and its sometimes serious consequences--is better detection. That could be provided by two recently developed diagnostic tests that are both inexpensive and rapid. One, called MicroTrak, has been marketed for a year by the Syva Co. of Palo Alto, Calif., and provides a diagnosis in less than half an hour. The other, devised by Abbott Laboratories of North Chicago, Ill., takes from 3 1/2 to four hours but is better suited for testing large numbers of people. It became available nationwide last week...