Word: expo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...committees organize events such as the Women's Expo, a one day conference held in the spring on a specific topic...
...Walkman, and will soon launch the PlayStation game player--are newcomers to the $5 billion U.S. video-game business. But it didn't take them long to get into the mtv-blaring, schoolyard-taunting, testosterone-burning spirit of the thing. Hanging in front of the big Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles last week was a Sony banner that boasted EATS NINTENDO FOR LUNCH--THEN THROWS...
Retailers too are hunting for skilled sales personnel to explain sophisticated products. Home Depot is increasingly turning to design-school graduates to work in its new line of Expo stores, which will cater to customers building new houses. The company has already hired armies of carpenters, electricians and other craftsmen to take the angst out of shopping as the do-it-yourself chain has expanded to more than 300 outlets. Home Depot went farther afield to hire Larry Wells, 43, who lost his $60,000-a-year job as an Eastern Airlines pilot when that carrier went out of business...
Computer viruses are sneaky, omnipresent and out of control -- but are they alive? The British physics giant Stephen Hawking thinks so. In a speech given at Apple Computer's Macworld Expo in Boston, the wheelchair-bound author of "A Brief History of Time" mused that computer viruses meet all the definitions of life, except for the fact that they have no metabolism. Instead, Hawking said, they're parasites that feed off the metabolisms of the host computers they destroy: "I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely...
...Apple system software is set for public introduction in August at MacWorld Expo in Boston. Users purchasing Macintoshes or PowerBooks during the fall semester will likely receive System 7.5 as the built-in system software...