Word: compassing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...university where every structure larger than a lunch-tray has a historic name attached to it, residents of North and South Houses have no such heritage in which to steep themselves; in recent weeks they have begun to speak out. "They aren't names--they're points on a compass," North House Master J. Woodland Hastings has bemoaned...
...gulf. That lifeline is acutely vulnerable to the disruptions of war, revolution and political turmoil. The region has been beset by all three. The conservative Arab states-Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman-face threats to their security at every point of the compass: a simmering, potentially explosive war between Iran and Iraq, armored Soviet divisions in Afghanistan, Soviet proxy forces in South Yemen, and the growing militancy of Islamic fundamentalists everywhere...
...incongruously on an antique coffee table in an ornate office at the State Department. On the top of the box is an inscription scrawled in red marker: FOREIGN POLICY KIT. FOR THE BEST DAD IN GOVERNMENT. Inside are a tiny American flag, some Band-Aids, dice, a flashlight, a compass, a pacifier and a box of Anacin. "Everything I need," laughs George Shultz...
...pricier end of the market, Grid Systems of Mountain View, Calif., offers the Mercedes-Benz version. It has a thin, flat screen, folds into a sleek 9¼-lb. magnesium package and slips easily into the bottom half of a briefcase. The Compass Computer, as it is called, packs considerable storage capacity-enough to handle the wordage of a long novel. "It's a truly stunning engineering achievement," says one industry analyst. Equally stunning, however, is the price...
Japan is also quickly moving to pioneer its own technological advances. Sharp has developed a flat computer display screen that takes much less space than conventional ones. It is being used by Grid Systems of Mountain View, Calif., in its new Compass computer, which sells for $8,150. Sony has introduced a device that can store nearly twice as much computer information in about half the space that is now required. Japan is also reputed to have a lead in the development of more futuristic improvements like videodisc storage, which will vastly enlarge the capacity of personal computers...