Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City last week, visitors flocked to one of the largest displays of high-technology protection gear ever assembled. The vast and ear-splitting array was on view at the International Security Conference and Exposition. Among devices in the more-than-500-booth exhibit was a $2,000 alarm made by Texas-based Sennet Systems that is equipped with a computer-synthesized voice. When activated, the unit can phone a homeowner anywhere in the U.S. and use its 256-word vocabulary to alert him to the precise nature of a security problem. Linear Corp. of Inglewood, Calif., showed...
...into silence, with the legal and medical systems often oblivious. In most countries a man's home is practically his personal free-fire zone, off limits to busybodies. And the U.S. has far and away more shelters and programs where victims can find solace and help. But the vast array of American services is to meet a vast terror: a woman's chances of being raped in the U.S., for instance, are five or ten times as great as in Western Europe...
...array of aftershocks for rape victims includes depression, guilt, diminished interest in sex, breakups of relationships, obsessive concern for safety and loss of trust. Studies show that divorces and suicide attempts are fairly common after rape. "I live like I'm in a cage," says Mary Bronnenberg, one of Johns' victims in Los Angeles. "There are bars on the windows and floodlights on the house. I know there's no way anybody can get in, but I'm still scared...
Charles Bluhdorn was one of the earliest and flashiest corporate conglomerateurs, a master of the unfriendly takeover. Starting with a small auto-parts company in 1958, he assembled an incredible array of disparate businesses into Gulf & Western Industries (1982 sales: $5.3 billion). Bluhdorn eventually bought some 100 companies large and small, ranging from Paramount Pictures to publisher Simon & Schuster to New York City's Madison Square Garden. In one six-year period, he brought 80 firms into what became jokingly known as "Engulf and Devour." Bluhdorn died in February at 56 after a heart attack, and his successors...
What American Express learned stirred a round of second-guessing at the company's executive suites in New York City. Officials were concerned that it might be extremely expensive to adapt IDS's computer system to process the broad array of products that American Express sells, including financial-management accounts, traveler's checks and credit cards. In addition, American Express began to fear that some of its top managers would have to spend too much time integrating IDS operations into the parent company. All along, American Express was nervous about IDS's lackluster performance...