Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wave to the Passing Motorists. Not content with the usual ways of putting the arm on potential givers, officials at the University of Southern California decided to put up freeway billboards reminding motorists of U.S.C.'s current fund drive. Explains U.S.C.'s Leonard Wines: "Everything adds up to make an impression...
...create what in effect is an electron freeway without these obstructing potholes, Bell Physicist Raymond Dingle and his colleagues built a semiconductor made of extremely thin, alternate layers of aluminum gallium arsenide (which they doped) and gallium arsenide (which they left pure). They reasoned that any electrons donated by the impurity would tend to migrate to the adjoining undoped gallium arsenide layer because of their tendency to seek what physicists call a lower energy state. Explains the Australian-born Dingle: "It's rather like the inclination of water to flow downhill." The new design worked. Isolated from the obstructing...
...hooked the lines to towering outriggers and began a slow drift that would take us 30 miles north before dawn. The once deserted sea suddenly seemed like a freeway at rush hour. Huge tankers glided out of the night, quiet as cats. Flickering orange lights marked the miles-long strands of line set by commercial fishermen. A minicity blossomed around us -the lights of other fishing boats, and perhaps a marijuana smuggler...
More often, police are victims of the rising freeway fury. Last year 413 California highway patrolmen were attacked and injured by people they had pulled over to the side of the road, up from 244 in 1973. The Los Angeles police report 364 incidents last year in which vehicles were used for assault...
This activity is part of the explosive growth of the microelectronics industry, which since 1963 has transformed Santa Clara County, whose heart is Silicon Valley, from a bucolic orchard to a crazy quilt of low-slung buildings and endless seams of freeway. Electronics sales are rising 14% annually and will reach an expected $66 billion this year; 10% of the total volume comes from Silicon Valley. Partly because of a post-Viet Nam decline in trained electronics workers coming out of the military, the valley's personnel officers are searching to fill an estimated 5,000 openings...