Word: computerizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Devices are being designed that will allow fitness-conscious Americans to take precise readings on their own. This spring Futrex, in Gaithersburg, Md., plans to introduce a hand-held computerized analyzer. Borrowing technology developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to determine the nutritional content of meat and grain, the device beams near infrared light on the arm. As the light passes through the flesh, fat absorbs specific wavelengths; light emitted through the skin is then picked up by a detector. The computer translates the information into percent body fat. Cost of the device: around...
Although the expert found a wire leading from Tribe's third-floor office in Griswold Hall to a computer terminal on the second floor, Steiner said it was not "100 percent certain that there was in fact any interception."
Program Trading. On Black Monday, the N.Y.S.E. ordered a halt to certain kinds of computer-aided trades in which brokers send huge waves of buy or sell orders through the markets with a few taps on a keyboard. Those emergency restrictions are still in effect, and there is considerable sentiment...
Nonetheless, Ginsburg possesses a remarkable resume for so young a man. Editor of the law review at the University of Chicago Law School, clerk for liberal Justice Thurgood Marshall, and later professor at Harvard, he left teaching to join the Justice Department as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for regulatory affairs...
Many portfolio managers who became stars during the bull market emerged from the crash notably tarnished. George Soros, 57, who until Black Monday was regarded as one of the canniest investors in Wall Street history, saw his Quantum Fund drop some 36%, to $1.67 billion. Other stars emerged overnight. Elaine...