Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although the non-ordered choice housing lottery has begun to chip away the house's stereotype, House Master Robert J. Kiely '60 said he thinks even a small group of people can maintain the Adams tradition...
Also popular with notebook buyers are systems built around Intel's 386SL CPU/A member of the successful 80386 series, the chip was designed to prolong battery lives on notebooks, one of the biggest concerns for notebook users. It does so through a lower power requirement, an internal memory cache that Intel claims can speed up operations by up to 20 percent, and built in power-management circuitry that helps per serve as much power as possible...
...royal ditsiness, the new queen wants to pave over the Enchanted Woodyou-bemyneighbor to make room for the Fairest of the Mall. Prettiface's plan angers King Oberon Yourleft (Chip Rosetti), a tree-hugging Shakespearean sprite with magical powers. Hence, political subtext...
...million in damages. The French intelligence service recruited moles in the European branch offices of IBM, Texas Instruments and other U.S. electronics companies. A decade ago, an FBI sting operation caught senior-level executives at Hitachi and Mitsubishi trying to buy confidential information on the latest IBM computer chip. After initially refusing to submit to U.S. jurisdiction, both companies pleaded guilty to charges connected with the theft...
Some stock traders might even be tempted to use the still taboo word boom. The Dow Jones industrial average last week shot up 4%, to a record Friday close of 3442. The 132-point rise in this blue-chip stock index for last week alone equaled its increase for all of 1992. Even more striking, bond prices rose enough to send the interest rate on long-term Treasury bonds down to 7.17%, the lowest since 1986 (the higher a bond's price, the lower its interest yield). Apparently bond traders, who usually do not trust Democrats, think that Clinton really...