Word: chip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discovery of a brass regimental facing plate, a shieldlike ornament from a soldier's bearskin cap, with the word royal clearly distinguishable. After gingerly brushing away some silt, Sledge recalls, "I came across something shiny right underneath." It was embedded in the surrounding coral, which he had to chip away carefully. Just as he was about to give up for the day and return to the surface, the plate loosened, and he was able to slide it out of the coral in perfect condition. Says Sledge: "That, to me, was extremely exciting and of more value to an archaeologist than...
...have unwittingly spawned the clones. When the company began producing its first personal computer in 1981, it designed the machine around two widely available components, the Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS DOS) and the Intel 8088 microprocessor chip. Reason: IBM wanted to use standard equipment so that software companies would write programs for its computer. The only element of the PC that IBM copyrighted was the integrated circuit called the Basic Input Output System (BIOS), which controlled how the software interacted with the hardware. But by building circuits that simulated the BIOS, enterprising computer jocks created machines that could legally...
...individual teachers, Chip Morris says of Lucinda Childs, his choreography teacher, "She's kind of inscrutable. It seems she doesn't want to interfere heavily with the class. It seems she wants people to have their own opinions...
...still-photography standards. The CCD can store only 380,000 pixels, or individual picture elements, the tiny dots that form an image. A normal 35-mm photograph contains 18 million pixels. Canon is working on the problem, however, and rival Eastman Kodak says it has already developed a chip that can store up to 1.4 million pixels...
This combination of money and technology, show biz and sex appeal strikes many foreigners as the epitome of the American success story, and so they adopt English words that imply success itself: super, blue chip, boom, status symbol, summit. Some of that, clearly, is just snobbery. Through U.S. television, says British Grammarian Randolph Quirk, a foreigner can pick up an Americanized vocabulary "if you want to show you're with it and talking like Americans, the most fashionable people on earth." On the other hand, some upper-class Egyptian youths think it is chic to use Anglo-Saxon four-letter...