Word: copper
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...each of these packets leaves your computer through the Ethernet card, it travels via the datajack through wiring behind your walls. The wiring here is mostly copper, fairly similar to the cabling used for telephone service...
ARRESTED. YASUO HAMANAKA, 48, former copper dealer for Japan's Sumitomo Corp., who lost an estimated $2.6 billion in allegedly unsanctioned trading; on suspicion of forging two documents to authorize his transactions with a Merrill Lynch dealer; in Tokyo...
...Harvard Lampoon's costly project to repair its copper roof structure should be completed by the end of next week, said Joseph F. Hickey, maintenance official at the Lampoon castle...
Your cable line, by contrast, has enough data-carrying capacity--or bandwidth--to deliver 60 or 70 channels of live video the instant you turn on the tube. It is, in high-tech parlance, a very fat "pipe"--some 300 times as fat as "twisted pair" copper phone lines. What if, the cable industry breathlessly asks, some of that bandwidth could be diverted to the Internet? How might entertainment and commerce--not to mention the industry's bottom line--be transformed...
...sport once dominated by Americans, but today China, Australia, Germany, Hungary and Russia produce champions. No wonder Hall, a 6-ft. 6-in., 185-lb. 21-year-old who may be the most gifted U.S. swimmer since Mark Spitz, cracks his knuckles and fiddles nervously with a copper wrist bracelet--a souvenir from his first Dead concert. "I'm 10 feet from the top of the mountain," he says. "When you're that close, you keep climbing. It is within grasp...