Word: chip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buying of America has virtually turned into an industry of its own, with sharp-eyed advance crews scouting out the country's most attractively undervalued treasures, researchers typing up thick intelligence reports on U.S. acquisition targets, finance teams huddling with investment bankers in Tokyo, London and elsewhere, and blue-chip law firms constantly at work drafting reams of tender offers, prospectuses and sale documents...
While foreigners have poured billions of dollars into U.S. buildings, banks and blue-chip companies, it is the vast sums they are pumping into America's stock and bond markets that have the greatest impact on its economy. All told, foreigners last year held more than $500 billion worth of U.S. Treasury and other government securities, corporate bonds and shares in publicly traded companies. (They also owned $449 billion deposited in accounts in American banks.) U.S. holdings of foreign stocks and bonds amounted to $269 billion, but foreign holdings are rising faster. The fact is that outsiders are supplying...
What has helped improve customers' appetites is the diversity of new products available. The most exciting ingredient, which will be the heart of 50 different computer models by year's end, is a $235 piece of silicon known as the 80386 microchip. It is this flat, black chip -- smaller than a matchbook -- that has powered the biggest advance in computer technology in recent memory. The 80386 brings to personal computers the speed and power that were once available only in larger and much more expensive minicomputers. IBM, Compaq and Tandy have built new high-end machines around this chip, which...
...company has prospered by catering to the conservative inclinations of its small-town clientele. "Other firms were advising people to buy and sell," says Ted Jones. "Our advice was to buy and keep." Currently, Jones brokers tend to recommend such blue-chip stocks as McDonald's and BellSouth. By putting down roots in small communities, Jones brokers can get to know their customers especially well. Says Bill Janssen, the Jones man in St. Peter, Minn.: "I can work with a customer Friday, fish with him on Saturday and sit next to him in church on Sunday." Last year the average...
Once it was hailed as the ultimate manufacturing industry, an enterprise that would cut American labor costs, boost productivity and rack up as much as $4 billion in sales by 1990. Blue-chip giants stampeded to buy into the action; bankers panted to finance the heralded expansion. Optimism was seemingly unbounded for the U.S. robotics industry, which produced semi-intelligent machines that were expected to help American businesses compete with low-wage foreign rivals over the next two decades and to improve greatly the quality of American industrial production...