Word: flashed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cost of developing new computer chips has propelled some formerly fierce rivals into unlikely alliances. The latest: IBM, Toshiba and Siemens will unite to create memory chips 16 times as powerful as any existing today, while Advanced Micro Devices and Fujitsu will work together on flash memory chips, which could one day replace disk drives. Suddenly a major weapon in the U.S.-Japanese trade war looks more like a plowshare than a sword...
...Clinton recasts his campaign for the fall, his selection of Gore is only one of several significant moves. The easiest, this week's convention, will be over in a flash. In days that some can still recall, national-party conventions witnessed the heaviest lifting; party bosses actually selected the candidates. Today conventions are little more than nationally televised pep rallies, quickly forgotten junkets that can nevertheless doom a candidate's chances if they deteriorate into party-wrecking brawls. The TV exposure routinely provides the ticket a temporary bounce (4 points in the polls, on average), but the lingering memory...
...show ... sort of a sideways criss-cross thing ..," Victor trails off. Frustrated, he gets up and demonstrates what he means: starting with his feet in first position, he weaves them back and forth and somehow propels himself sideways through a series of traffic cones. The bright orange beacons flash in and out of view rapidly as his legs work through them, churning like an egg inch as he threads down the line. The move speaks for itself...
...understatements, Bunting's architectural book notes that "the Science Center is not entirely satisfactory from a visual standpoint." Designed in 1970, the building was financed largely by Edwin Land of the Polaroid Corporation. Many a Harvard student have peered out a Canaday window, trying to locate the building's flash and shutter...
After 12-year-old student William Figueroa, far right, finished writing out the word potato during a spelling bee at the Luis Munoz Rivera School in Trenton, New Jersey, Vice President Dan Quayle, left, relying on a flash card, urged the youngster...