Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...getting so huge that it's starting to be impossible for the major companies to be all things to all people." Instead of mass-producing chips that work in every type of machine, many newcomers are zeroing in on customers with special needs. Others are perfecting a fast-evolving technology called CMOS (complementary metal oxide semiconductor) to produce chips that run on less power and could come to dominate the industry within a few years...
...which a consumer simply adds water or milk and then boils. General Foods stirred a short-lived sensation with Pop Rocks, a carbonated candy that crackled and popped when eaten. The candy was so effervescent that the company had to disprove rumors that children who swallowed the granules too fast would get a stomachful of carbonation. But the candy was nothing that youngsters could sink their teeth into, and the fad eventually lost its fizz...
...residents of what must be the only major university campus in the country without either of these great American fast food emporia, we had no vested interest in seeing the Domino's and McDonald's hired hands battle it out for the title...
...went the renovations--Lowell and Winthrop, Adams and Leverett and Quincy, Dunster and Eliot and Kirkland. And now...? Not so fast, say College officials, "This Quad stuff is going to cost bundles of money, and we don't have all that we need. But we're committed to doing something: Look at all the fancy models and architect's proposals we've commissioned. And look--a new building for North, underground tunnels uniting Cabot, duplex suites, a whole new look. Isn't it pretty? Isn't it nice...
...Surprises came thick and fast, starting with a second play that made the old folks in the audience think of the first play from scrimmage in the 1981 Penn game...