Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...live in places where the landscape is emptier, the housing costs lower, the culture more gentle--places where Martha Stewarts manque can slow down long enough to create the gilded topiaries they've dreamed about for years. In Wilmington, the emigres include a Boston doctor, a California silicon-chip engineer, a pharmaceutical-research scientist, a cop, a prosecutor, an artist looking for solitude and a carpet installer from suburban Dayton who chucked his job for one selling fertilizer in town...
...also bought big names. Alwaleed told TIME that he now owns about 5% of News Corp., the global media conglomerate run by Rupert Murdoch, making him the second largest individual holder, behind Murdoch. Alwaleed also bought some 5% of Web-browser maker Netscape Communications, and a chunk of chip and cell-phone maker Motorola. The fourth finalist, another well-known American company, according to the prince, is still being bought...
...explains to his friend, "You can do anything to music. You can have sex. Drive a car. It's like when I fail a test at school: I come home, I play my music, I get in a really good mood." This may be what the V chip...
...your item on FCC proposals for installing television V chips in personal computers [NOTEBOOK, Nov. 3]: in seeking comment about whether to put the chips in new PCs, the FCC is following the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which directs the agency to ask questions concerning V chips, including whether PCs that double as TV receivers should be equipped with the chips. These are only proposals and do not include PCs that do not function as TV receivers, nor do they apply to the Internet. My hope is that the computer industry and all interested parties will tell the FCC what...
...appliances these days store more information and process a wider range of commands; in some cases, they are even making their own decisions. Sunbeam's most advanced toaster, for instance, can sense voltage fluctuations and adjust its toasting time accordingly. Panasonic's electronic rice cooker uses a fuzzy-logic chip to choose a suitable cooking temperature. The latest microwave from Sharp decides how long to nuke leftovers. (It also displays recipes and cooking instructions on its digital face...