Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...billion but only by using assumptions that call for a quick rebound in economic growth, coupled with a rapid descent of interest rates. Many economists view that combination as highly implausible. While the Administration predicts economic growth of 2.6% in 1990 and 3.3% in 1991, the blue-chip survey of 51 economists puts the figures...
Japanese companies have dominated the market for computer memory chips since the mid-1980s, but they may soon be facing stiffer competition from the U.S. and Europe. Last week IBM and West Germany's Siemens said they will join forces to develop a chip with a capacity of 64 million bits of information, or four times as much as today's experimental 16-megabit chips...
...Harvard managed to chip away at the Yale lead, tying the game with just under two minutes left on the clock. Sophomore guard Maura Healy's three-point attempt to put the Crimson up missed and Yale forward Paula Kenefick countered with her own three-pointer to give her squad the lead...
...collapse raised fresh doubts about the ability of U.S. companies to challenge Japanese chipmakers, who often seem to act in concert. As U.S. Memories faltered, major Japanese firms made a series of production cuts to strengthen chip prices and geared up to develop advanced new products...
Most improbable and intriguing of all, Strasser is being permitted to apply his fluent vision -- joyfully modernist, austere but playful, reasoned, practical, never grim -- to the interiors of huge blue-chip office hives. He recently finished a 1.2 million-sq.-ft., multibuilding IBM outpost near Dallas, and construction has begun in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on a two-block- long office building for a giant entertainment company. "I don't assume a corporation is conservative and conventional," he says. "I don't feel that as soon as they say 'corporate,' you have to do chickenshit work...