Word: fresh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young electronics engineer at the newly formed Intel Corp., it was a challenging assignment. Fresh out of Stanford University, where he had been a research as sociate, M.E. ("Ted") Hoff in 1969 was placed in charge of producing a set of miniature components for programmable desk top calculators that a Japanese firm planned to market. After studying the circuitry proposed by the Japanese designers, the shy, self-effacing Hoff knew that he had a problem. As he recalls: "The calculators required a large number of chips, all of them quite expensive, and it looked, quite frankly, as if it would...
...huge variety of household appliances. The new chip also represented another kind of breakthrough: because its program was on a different chip, the microprocessor could be "taught" to do any number of chores. All that had to be done was to substitute a tiny program chip with fresh instructions. In a memorable display of this versatility, the Pro-Log Corp. of Monterey, Calif., built what was basically a digital clock. But by switching memory chips and hitching it to a loudspeaker, it became first a "phonograph," playing the theme from The Sting, then an electric piano...
...Goliath accusing David of dirty tricks: in 1976, Mobil's revenues were $25 billion, whereas Superior's were $441 million. But Superior has long had a brass-knuckle reputation. It was founded by William M. Keck, a flamboyant wildcatter ever on the alert for new oil, fresh profits and the main chance. In this pursuit, President Howard B. Keck, who took over at his father's death in 1964, is also relentless. Superior's success at sniffing out crude deposits has made it a darling of the New York Stock Exchange; last week its shares shot...
...suite is exciting--the constant interplay of jazz and classical elements is in every measure new and fresh. If you have never heard the work you will enjoy it. If you know the piece well from listening to the album, you have got to hear it live...
...boxing has a new outlook, and Ali will be back with a fresh approach. Don't think boxing's greatest is all done, because even at age 36, the former champ said after the fight, "I want to be the third man to regain the title...