Word: chip
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...School's grading system gives as much weight to class participation as to exams, discouraging reticence while rewarding those who contribute to class discussions. As a result, students say they often address the ethical elements of a case study only in last-ditch attempts--called "chip shots" in B-School parlance--to offer a relevant comment before class time elapses...
Later this year Aprex, a company based in Fremont, Calif., will begin marketing a high-tech medicine bottle designed to help doctors make sure that patients obey orders. Called MEMS (for medication event monitoring system), the container comes with a tiny computer chip embedded in its cap. When the patient takes off the cap to remove a pill, the chip records the day and time. At the patient's next checkup, the doctor can ask for the bottle back. Then the physician inserts the cap into a special electronic machine that analyzes the data contained in the chip and lets...
...improve that sorry performance, an unlikely coalition of ecologists and businessmen, nature lovers and profit seekers, has embarked on a campaign to give plastic foam and other plastics a second life. About 130 companies, ranging from blue-chip behemoths such as Du Pont and Dow Chemical to smaller firms like Wisconsin's Midwest Plastic Materials and Iowa-based Hammer's Plastic Recycling, are involved in reincarnating used plastics. Some 20 new firms are entering the business each year, according to the Council for Solid Waste Solutions, a Washington-based trade association...
...past March, with a photograph of Lear gracing the anniversary issue, Lear's went monthly, with a circulation of 350,000. The average age of her readers is 51, the average yearly household income a startling $95,600. New issues are fat with glossy ads aimed at this blue-chip audience. Lear, a lifetime liberal committed to democratic causes, had qualms about going so far upmarket but did so "to sell the idea to advertisers, which would ensure success." Failure was not in the cards...
...employees who worked in the U.S. securities industry before the collapse. And despite the cost cutting, a fresh wave of gloom rolled through investment houses last week. Even as the Dow Jones industrial average surged 72.40 points to a post-crash high of 2409.46, blue- chip firms announced setbacks that ranged from layoffs to plunging profits. Says Perrin Long, who follows the securities industry for Lipper Analytical Services in Manhattan: "A new reality...