Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Strong increases were registered by consumer spending, business investment, orders for durable goods, sales of existing houses and consumer confidence, while new claims for unemployment compensation have been showing a consistent decline. Any one of these figures might be a fluke. But it seems unlikely that they would all flash misleading signals...
...companies roll out new products. Last week Digital Equipment introduced the new Alpha chip, which the Guinness Book of World Records anointed as the fastest microprocessor on the market. But the Americans are also reclaiming lost ground in memory chips. Intel, for instance, is the major producer of "flash" memory chips, one of the fastest- growing segments of the market. Flash chips, which can retain information even when the power is turned off, could one day replace computer disk drives. Other recent innovations include "voice" chips that can store audio recordings like a telephone-answering machine...
...chipmaking plant in San Diego. The factory made one-megabit memory ! chips, whose price has plunged in the wake of overproduction by South Korean firms. Japanese firms have recently had to contend with stiff competition from low-cost producers in Taiwan as well. They have also fumbled: Toshiba invented flash technology, but Intel picked up the idea and ran with it. Says Thomas Thornhill III, an analyst at Montgomery Securities: "We all thought Japan Inc. was the Godzilla that would gobble up the U.S. chip industry. Nobody thinks Japan is the big bad monster...
...WOMEN'S MOVEMENT OF THE '70S WAS THE lightning flash of female empowerment, then the long-awaited roll of thunder began to resound in this year's election results. From coast to coast, women candidates, thrust forward by Anita Hill-inspired outrage and helped along by anti-incumbency sentiment, were in contention as never before...
Green velvet, black silk, silver spandex and tweed jackets flash as 30 men and women line up by team outside the shiny wooden dance floor...