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As the digital scoreboard turns over a tens digit in any of these categories, a bucket of something, such as embarrassing red ink or even cod scallops, will pour from the ceiling onto the offender. This negative reinforcement hopefully will act as a subtle deterrent, reminding the speaker to curtail...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: PULIER LEG | 2/5/1987 | See Source »

The AT&T move was the most recent response to evidence that the work involved in creating microchips can lead to miscarriages. Other semiconductor manufacturers, such as Intel, National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments and Advanced Micro Devices, already encourage mothers-to-be to remove themselves from microchip production areas. The latest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Danger in The Clean Room | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

In the plane's fully equipped kitchen, Khashoggi's chef is preparing hors d'oeuvres. They will be served on white triangular china, embossed in gold with the letters AK, designed, along with the crystal and flatware, at a cost of $750,000. The plane, which Khashoggi bought in 1982...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Businessman Adnan Khashoggi's High-Flying Realm | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

MCC was formed in 1982 by ten companies, in part to counter Japan's Fifth- Generation Project, a combined government and industry effort to develop new supercomputers. The consortium's member firms agreed to pool the results of jointly financed long-term research conducted at an Austin center on such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uneasy Alliance: Defections hit a computer team | 1/19/1987 | See Source »

More important, sales of large IBM mainframe computers, which account for about 70% of the company's $50 billion in revenues, are being hurt by archrival Digital Equipment Corp. DEC sells the popular VAX line of so-called superminis--midsize computers that can do the work of low-end mainframe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IBM: It's Not Easy Being Blue | 10/20/1986 | See Source »

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