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With these properties, the Sandia scientists say, the ceramic will be useful in computers. Because its crystal orientation is determined by the last applied voltage, it is ideal for memory storage; its light-transmitting qualities can be used for computer read-outs and displays. Placed in front of a laser, the ceramic filter can block off the laser beam or let it through, depending on the amount of voltage applied. It can control the laser beam, much as a telegrapher's key modulates a radio wave, thus transmitting information...
...have been eliminated from the employees' platform, these two groups will be more easily reached. It is problematic, hough, because the Holyoke and blue collar workers are being intimidated by their supervisors. And it is the supervisors who have total jurisdiction-the University's latest statement has made that crystal clear...
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World's fairs have been a Western fixture ever since Britain's Prince Albert staged his Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851. But this-astonishingly-is the first world's fair ever to be held in Asia. The site is eminently suitable. Japan, all but crushed at the end of World War II, has far outdistanced every Asian nation, and most of those in the West, in an amazing economic surge that has carried it into third place (behind the U.S. and the Soviet Union) among the world's industrial giants. Gaudy, opulent, bursting at the seams...
...stock market lives by its crystal ball. For the past five weeks, the belief that interest rates have passed their peak has lifted share prices and investors' spirits in approximately equal measure. The "baby bank rally," as brokers have dubbed the winter rebound, draws some of its support from cuts in the prime lending rate, from 8½% to 8%, by a handful of small banks. Though executives of most major banks have scoffed at the reductions as premature, last week's mix of economic fact and forecast strengthened Wall Street's conviction that easier money...