Word: chip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: Well, they can?t all be bulls. But FORTUNE writer Nelson Schwartz says that despite Intel's after-the-bell report Tuesday that its second-quarter earnings declined 29 percent from last year to 66 cents per share, the chip maker?s stock shouldn?t take too much of a hit -? because on Wall Street, as in Washington, the spin?s the thing. "Although the published expectation was higher, at 68 cents, the way Intel announced it was much more important than the actual number," says Schwartz. "They predicted a better performance for the next quarter," and that...
Judging by the video of last year's soiree ($29.95), the festival might be the only event in America in which bikers, yuppies, lawyers, the Winnebago crowd and perhaps even militiamen can team up in bull chip-toss competition and coexist in a blissful celebration of...of...what was it again...
...degree to which kids learn to navigate the complex hyper-sexual world that reaches out seductively to them at every turn. One of the most positive results: the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and of teenage pregnancy is declining. Over the past few years, kids have managed to chip away at the teenage birthrate, which in 1991 peaked at 62.1 births per 1,000 females. Since then the birthrate has dropped 12%, to 54.7. Surveys suggest that as many as two-thirds of teenagers now use condoms, a proportion that is three times as high as reported in the 1970s...
...while no one says Harvard's academicprestige is in danger of real attrition for themoment, the loss of any Faculty member cannot helpbut chip away at the world's most prestigiousschool...
...which will be very familiar to connoisseurs of the Microsoft case. Arquit says to watch how Intel has steadily integrated more functions into the chip, in much the same way Redmond has glued more and more functions into Windows. Unlike Microsoft, however, Intel is trying its level best to head off a lawsuit. Washington, one government source says, has been "swarming with Intel lawyers...