Word: chip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when appliances incorporating the CEBus standard begin to appear later this year, homeowners will be able to build their own home-automation systems at a fraction of the previous cost. Several manufacturers, including Texas Instruments, CyberLynx and AISI, have announced plans to shrink the CEBus electronics into a chip that can be embedded at the factory into everything from air conditioners to toaster ovens. Says Les Larsen, president of Boulder- based CyberLynx: "This will allow homeowners to control their environment to a degree not possible before...
Oreos? Chocolate chip? Fudge Stripes? Donato didn't have time to tell. All he saw was Melrose rushing into the zone, wanting the puck...
...Wall Street, anti-takeover ploys are becoming as pervasive as red suspenders. Last week four blue-chip companies, including Dow Chemical and ^ American Express, unveiled a new financial product that could become a deterrent to corporate raiders. The firms will buy back as much as $5.6 billion worth of their shares with so-called unbundled stock units: packages that include a bond and two new types of securities. Partly because the new packages will allow the companies to pay less in taxes, investors might bid up the price of the new units. Raiders, Wall Streeters believe, might resist paying such...
...Pleasantville, N.Y., sent the admissions staff a brochure with pictures of his life and a witty summary of his high school career. He got in. And even unabashed pandering can sometimes have a positive effect. Robert Voss, director of admissions at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, received two giant chocolate-chip cookies, his favorite, from an applicant. The cookies are no guarantee of admission, he says. "But they differentiate the kid from the pack. I will remember...
Cooke wants a new stadium. Beathard decided money only goes to Marshall and not draft picks. Safety Alvin Walton does not want to tackle. Smith gains a yard per carry. Rookie kicker Chip Lohmiller loses games with clockwork regularity. And we fans have even booed our own players...