Word: dealing
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Grove and two colleagues he discovered in the company cafeteria--Bruce Deal and Edward Snow--then set out to make silicon usable. After months of work, they discovered that most of the MOS instability was traceable to an impurity--sodium--introduced when the chips were cured. Like a drop of lemon juice added to a cup of milk, sodium soured the precious semiconductors. The discovery solved a fundamental problem in materials science and set the stage for the semiconductor revolution. Grove and his team won one of the industry's most prestigious awards for the work. At home...
That too represents an enormous psychological change from the 1950s. In the postwar boom, there was general agreement about shoring up the New Deal institutions that promised to protect people if there were another economic earthquake. That consensus was carried into the expansion of the 1960s but then rolled back in the 1980s. "Most people may want to see welfare reformed," says Mitchell, "but a by-product of that is the widespread notion now that you're on your own. The old social contract that there will be help in bad times is disappearing...
...more than work on the entire White House domestic-policy operation. And that's not counting White House officials, like deputy chief of staff Sylvia Mathews, who spend long hours managing it, or the Cabinet secretaries and federal employees who have been ordered to come up with projects that deal with race...
...crisis is compounded by Seoul's paralyzed politics. The country will hold presidential elections this week, which leads the candidates to demagogue on the IMF deal rather than implement it quickly. Koreans who are not thoroughly disheartened by the implosion of their huge, highly industrialized economy are humiliated and resentful at the thought of a bailout from abroad. That makes it even harder for skittish politicians to impose the draconian remedies South Korea must swallow...
Ages ago, when my husband and I wanted to start a family, we had the Rh factor, not infertility problems, to contend with. It was a pretty big deal back then. But we wanted four kids. What to do? Simple. Have one child biologically and adopt three. Who cares whom they look like or what color they are? My kids are now 30, 28, 25 and 22. To me, they're all my flesh and blood. I've never given a second thought to the fact that some are adopted. Ups and downs? Naturally. But I'm their...