Word: chip
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...sector. In a classic case of a technology developed for a few specialized purposes finding application in all sorts of unexpected areas, supercomputing has spread from one industry to another like a benevolent virus. Semiconductor manufacturers use supercomputers to design ways to squeeze more transistors into a square-centimeter chip of silicon. Financial advisers use them to devise investment strategies of dizzying complexity. Biochemists need them to predict which molecules are worth testing as new medicines. Engineers rely on them to design new cars, jet engines, light bulbs, sailboats, refrigerators and artificial limbs...
Fortunately, the 10th-year coach is not shorton arms. Juniors Dan McConaghy and Rick Renninger,sophomores Chip Lippman and McGrady, and freshmenJon Biotti, Zach Hope, John Jakimczyk, Will Mercerand Cody Weston will all be given a chance to earnthe fourth spot...
Junk food at Cambridge natural Foods has also been healthified in the form of Barbara's Chocolate Chip Cookies with a Conscience, Samurai Puffs and nine grain pretzels...
Harvard stumbled to deficits of 4-1 (after one), 5-1 (at: 40 of the second period) and 6-3 (with 11 minutes left in the game). But each time, Harvard was able to chip away...
...Columbia gave Lee $6 million to make his second feature, School Daze. Six million dollars is a lot of money for, say, a car. But in movie terms it's just enough for a beat-up Buick. No wonder Spike Lee has a chip on his shoulder...