Word: computerize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The French thus are supposed to devise substitutes for the ubiquitous anglicisms that comprise a good part of their everyday vocabulary: such non-bons mots as bestseller, sexy, blue jeans, bowling, gadget, checkup, checkout, jumbo jet, baby sitter, nonstop, dead heat (pronounced did it), hot dog, hijack, racket, zoom, jukebox...
Singer Co. showed such vigor in sewing up new acquisitions during the 1960s that Harvard Business School used it as a case study of successful diversification. Now the 124-year-old sewing-machine firm is trying hard to recover from the financial drain caused by some of its acquisitive deals...
The total loss to Singer could be much less than $400 million. The company may be able to sell its business-machines line to some other corporation, and any price paid would reduce the loss. The line includes computer-linked cash registers, which are used in many department stores and...
Inside a 52-ft.-high aluminum geodesic dome, which acts as a buffer against the drifting snow, are three prefabricated buildings resembling large mobile homes. They contain sleeping facilities for 40 people, a communications center (including a ham radio shack for contacts with home), a dining hall and kitchen, a...
Soon after his assignation, Yuri receives a frightening telephone call from the Ministry of Culture. He is to attend a writers' conference in New York for the purpose of delivering a secret message, contained in a poem written for him by a KGB computer, to some unnamed mole in...