Word: dos
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Goldman, Sachs investment firm: "Despite all our efforts to make long-term plans, we pale in comparison with Nomura's awesome strategic thinking and investment." There is always the reminder of Detroit in the 1960s, when U.S. auto companies thought they were invulnerable to Japanese competition. Says Jayme Garcia dos Santos, general manager of Chase Manhattan Securities in Japan: "It's true that the Japanese have a lot to learn in New York markets. But we all have to be very careful. How often have we underestimated the Japanese ability to learn...
...that Americans most often sample foreign cultures through their taste buds. After years of experimentation with burritos and Dos Equis beer, they are finally becoming a bit more sophisticated about Hispanic cuisine. The savory snacks of Spain known as tapas, the distinctive bite of cilantro (coriander) in a salad or seafood dish, and the fiery blast of salsa, Mexico's peppery condiment -- are now commonplace ingredients in the menus of non-Hispanic restaurants and, increasingly, in American home cooking...
...cultural patter straight from the melting pot. Often it enters Anglo homes and families through the children, who pick it up at school or at play with their young Hispanic contemporaries. In other cases, it comes from watching TV; many an Anglo child watching Sesame Street has learned uno dos tres almost as quickly as one two three...
...Trenton. She has scrapbooks at home with photos of all the children. "When I get home at night, I just jumps into bed and visualizes what a beautiful day I had! When you get a baby young and you work with it long enough, you can tell his dos and don'ts, you can tell each whimper," she says...
They will use 3 1/2 inch disks and will come with a new operating system that will be much more `closed' than MS-DOS. IBM will also introduce a machine based on Intel's 80386 microprocessor, this machine will be able to operate at more than twice the speed...