Word: fibers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chainsaw-carved, life-size wooden elephant was lugged away for $13,000. A 4-ft.-high red fiber-glass ball called Zargon was snapped up for $2,625. These were some of the bargains to be found at last week's auction of sculpture, furniture and potpourri from Expo 86, the world's fair held in Vancouver from last May to October...
...miles of fiber-optic and coaxial cables run through the S.I.A.C. complex, which communicates with equally impressive banks of machines at major brokerage houses, as well as with tens of thousands of personal computers, passive desktop terminals, printers and other devices. S.I.A.C. relays information to at least 500 display terminals on the N.Y.S.E. trading floor alone. The exchange computers communicate in five different computer languages, manage almost 1,000 orders a second, and can handle a trading volume of 450 million shares daily, nearly twice the current record...
Inside the museum, pale maple floors, terra-cotta tile and fiber matting create a neutral background for the displays. What saves it from being merely one more ocean of architectural white space is a soaring four-story atrium- lobby, dominated by a magnificent oval staircase that leads to the exhibit levels. "What we wanted," says Smith, "was a simple environment that would be a good backdrop for our exhibits...
...business world. The retailing industry, for one, is clearly aiming at two markets: upscale (Saks Fifth Avenue) and downscale (K mart). Contends Barbara Ehrenreich, a fellow at the Washington- based Institute for Policy Studies: "Whether one looks at food, clothing or furnishings, two cultures are emerging: natural fiber vs. synthetic blends; hand-crafted wood cabinets vs. mass-produced maple; David's Cookies vs. Mister Donut." The result of such polarization of society, she warns, could be a warping of the country's identity...
Telecomputing. Visions of sugar plums and fiber optic cables swirled through the Happy Hacker's head. In reality, however, telecommunications isn't very complicated. It simply involves hooking your computer up to a telephone. Usually you buy a modem ($100 to $250) and plug one end into your computer and the other end into a telephone outlet...