Word: controls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatic breakup was the latest of several surprises that rocked the intensely competitive industry this spring. In April NEC, one of Japan's three supercomputer makers, announced a machine it claims is eight times faster than the speediest Cray. A week later Cray's crosstown rival Control Data declared that after five years and $238 million in losses, it was closing its supercomputer subsidiary, ETA Systems. That left Cray as the last U.S. company still racing the Japanese for pre-eminence in what both countries view as a technology critical to the future of science and industry...
...sits tight, Baker deliberately carried no significant new ideas to Moscow last week for the most important superpower meeting since the new Administration took office. Instead, he arrived determined to "put a Bush stamp" on U.S.-Soviet relations by swinging the spotlight toward regional issues and away from arms control altogether...
...Quartzsite is subject to the same forces that control the vast flocks of migratory birds that traverse the continent twice a year. In winter the town swells to absorb 200,000 people. They are refugees from the frozen North, most of them retirees making their seasonal escape in RVs. Then, usually in April, when the temperature begins to rise and the lure of the North is greater, the huge encampment with its bustling activity rolls away, evaporating like runoff from a desert cloudburst...
...deepest relationships, then, were always with himself, and with the luminous sounds he entertained in his head. In his determination to control everything around him, he scripted, down to the last pause, his "off-the- cuff" public interviews and devoted himself to a technology that would allow him, he thought, to create perfect pieces of music simply by splicing together flawless passages. His ambition, he once said, was "to try my hand at being a prisoner." He achieved that goal, perhaps, by locking himself more and more inside the echo chamber of his own mind, becoming, in the process...
Gorbachev does it again, catching the U.S. off guard with an arms-control proposal that could deepen the U.S.-West German split. -- Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley loses some of his Teflon. -- Rookie Governor Gaston Caperton gives West Virginia something new and strange -- hope. -- The annual Statistical Abstract paints a picture of American life by the numbers...