Word: breakthrough
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer buffs at ease with the graphic virtuosity of Max Headroom, the FAA demonstration might seem primitive. But to air-traffic professionals gathered in the agency's sixth-floor "war room," it represented a technological breakthrough. Prior to last week, FAA radar data showing the location of planes flying over the U.S. could be shown only piecemeal on computer screens at one or more of the aviation agency's 20 regional control centers. Now, all that information has been merged and displayed on a single cathode-ray screen, giving the nation's air-traffic controllers an unprecedented view of overhead...
...distressed to learn of yet another breakthrough in technology. Mankind has adjusted to fire and the wheel but has not yet learned to cope with the Industrial Revolution, nuclear energy and automation. Technology is clearly out of hand...
...Government to sort through the mound of data, conduct its own tests and allow fake fat to reach menus and supermarket shelves. But Wall Street is already optimistic that the maker of Ivory soap, Crest toothpaste and Crisco oil has its hands on the greatest food-industry breakthrough since, well, sliced bread. Within two days of the FDA filing, P&G shares jumped 10%, to 93 5/8. P&G (1986 revenues: $15.4 billion) has "hit a grand-slam home run," says Hercules Segalas, an analyst for the Drexel Burnham Lambert investment firm. "This is going to be the single most...
Success and celebrity have been a long time in coming to the field of superconductivity. "Until recently," says John Ketterson, a physicist at Northwestern University, "people were glum. There hadn't been a breakthrough in a long time. Funding was drying up. This has sent everyone back into the field with a new burst of enthusiasm." Although Kamerlingh Onnes envisioned early on that his discovery might pave the way for extremely powerful, compact electromagnets, he and other experimenters were stymied by a strange phenomenon: as soon as enough current was flowing through the then known superconductors (lead, tin and mercury...
...will initially develop software only for Apple machines under an unspecified non-Apple name. The company will aim in part to seek out hot new ideas from small-time independent programmers who lack the resources to market their products. So, just like Apple's first computer, the next software breakthrough may be discovered in somebody's garage...