Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could almost not care less. Grove doesn't spend his money on planes, giant homes or fast cars. He lives on a relatively modest scale. He and Eva plan to leave their daughters "comfortable," but the bulk of his fortune will go to charity. The Groves have endowed 10 chemistry scholarships at CCNY, made contributions to prostate-cancer funds and supported the International Rescue Committee, which brought Grove from Vienna to America. (He still remembers the day the IRC representative in Manhattan sent him out on Fifth Avenue with a blank check to buy the best hearing aid he could...
...early 1960s, the computer industry was in the midst of a benign revolution--and Fairchild was a breeding ground for revolutionaries. Early computers were fast, but attempts to make them faster were running into a thermodynamic wall: every time you asked the computer to think harder, it got hotter, like a grad student sweating his orals. The heat came from vacuum tubes, which acted as giant on-off switches, holding and releasing electrical charges. (A central "computer" tallied up all the on-off signals as ones and zeroes, and translated the results into real mathematics.) But the tubes, which sucked...
...accident, and the major drama at the safety-board hearings was expected to be the reactions of some 100 relatives of victims, invited as observers. Indeed, after bravely perusing transcripts from the plane's cockpit voice recorder (the captain at one point noted the plane was climbing especially fast, like a "homesick angel") and toughing out excruciatingly detailed computer-generated crash simulations and a slide marked "Chart 4.7--Body Fragmentation," several dozen relatives marched from the hall to protest the unapologetic testimony of medical examiner Dr. Charles Wetli, whose work they still think was slow and insensitive...
...appropriate wearables, according to Phil Wiseman of Maritz Marketing Research Inc., who does an annual survey of holiday buying habits. Of course, the same can be said of Halloween. Once an occasion when children were sent out to practice the fine art of extortion on the neighbors, Halloween is fast becoming an excuse for adults in feathered masks and body paint to indulge in public foreplay. Already costumes are almost de rigueur, replacing even airline uniforms. I know this because I spent last Halloween evening between planes in a major hub airport, feeling distinctly awkward in slacks and blazer because...
...South Koreans' lunge for mature democracy. The margin of his victory, a single percentage point, is a sign of how tightly the ruling party could still hold on even after the outgoing government had shown itself to be rife with corruption and had presided over South Korea's fast trip from the world's eleventh-largest economy to being on the IMF dole...