Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...idea of stickups inside some of the world's glossy, high-tech laboratories and computer warehouses is a bit incongruous, unless one considers that computer chips are a robber's dream -- very precious (up to $900 for the newest models) and easy to conceal (the size of matchbooks when sealed inside their cases). And these days they are in high demand: the worldwide market for personal computers grew 8%, to $68 billion, in 1993. The main target of thieves is the Intel 486 chip that powers most new IBM PC and IBM-compatible machines; such chips are now in more...
...concerned is the agency that earlier this year it opened a high-tech- crime office with a dozen agents in San Jose, California, to clamp down on chip thefts. Among other things, the agents have found a rising threat of heist-related violence. "We're seeing more weapons being used," says special agent Rick Smith. In one stickup a robber put his gun to a chip retailer's head and pulled the trigger, but the weapon failed to fire. "No one's been killed yet," Smith says, "but it's going to happen...
...There's a chip on his shoulder these days that, when he digs deeper than Bobbitt-Harding-Menendez for material, puts an unpleasant defensive spin on the observations. We laugh, sure, and marvel...
Sophomore Chip Harris (2-0) went the distance on the mound for the Crimson, giving up only two earned runs...
That playoff between Larry Mize and Seve Ballesteros a few years back (for specifics, you may want to call Darren, he probably has it on tape), when Mize hit that chip shot, was exciting...