Word: chip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...issue is doubly compelling as the U.S. market chugs ever higher. The average blue-chip stock has risen a stunning 29% annually in the past two years, nearly triple the historical 10.5% benchmark, making the U.S. the best-performing major market on the globe in that period. The Dow Jones industrial average blew past the 6300 marker last week, more than double its level less than five years ago. America is on a roll, and with Wall Street euphoric over the election results, it seems nothing can go wrong. U.S.A. all the way! Besides, giant U.S. companies such as Coca...
...time I get to Lamont for some afternoon reading, the sunlight has begun to fade and the dinner hours are fast ticking away. Even if I don't eat again until 7--when only the ends of the pork loin are left and the chocolate chip cookies are long gone--just four-and-a-half hours have elapsed since I finished lunch...
...Tipper Gore's recipe for fat-free chocolate-chip cookies...
Small is beautiful. The presidency is a big thing. But in the era of downsized government, little things are fertile terrain for a feel-your-pain incumbent. And what bigger pain than raising a teenager in a vulgar world--thus, the V-chip, school uniforms and curfews. Compassion legislation: it feels so good, and it's oh so cheap...
...JavaStation has no hard drive, doesn't play CD-ROMs and takes no floppies. Users are supposed to store their personal files on the servers and download whatever little application programs (or "applets") they need directly from the Net. The price of the base machine, with one fast microSPARCII chip, starts at $750. By the time you add a keyboard and a monitor, however, the cost approaches $1,000--almost as much as a low-end Macintosh or Windows PC would cost...