Word: demand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...semiconductor business has seen slowdowns before, but the current struggle has been the worst yet. The problem has its roots partly in the electronics boom of the early 1980s, when sales of products ranging from personal computers to video games created intense demand for chips. Semiconductor makers in Japan and the U.S. vastly increased their capacity, expecting an annual sales growth of 30% to 100%. But when the computer industry's expansion stagnated two years ago, the resulting glut of chipmakers and chips triggered sharp price cutting. The cost of a 256K dynamic RAM (random access memory) chip, for example...
...President had no choice but to reject this demand, which would have killed SDI. Said Reagan at a Baltimore rally for Republican Senatorial Candidate Linda Chavez: "SDI is America's insurance policy that the Soviets will begin living up to the arms control agreements that they've agreed to. SDI is one of the chief reasons the Soviets went to the summit and one of the primary reasons they'll come back again. SDI is the key to a world free of nuclear blackmail...
Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, the hardest-lining of all Pentagon hawks, still insists "there's the possibility of a compromise" on SDI. Presumably it would involve something between Gorbachev's demand for tight restrictions on testing and development and Reagan's insistence that the program not be "killed." That might involve finding some definition of "research" that allows testing of Star Wars components outside the lab yet does not constitute the development of an actual SDI system...
First, this solution would satisfy baseball purists, who demand that Roger Maris' home run record and all other records set in the longer season be denoted with an asterisk. (Would they suggest that Pete Rose's hit record be asterisked because he played in seasons of 162 games while Ty Cobb played in 154-game seasons...
...large high-rises on Mass. Ave. between Harvard and MIT have an extraordinary amount of traffic and noise, which greatly increases the demand for city services such as street improvement and police and fire protection," says CCA's president...