Word: gears
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...number of smaller companies offer equally sophisticated gear and are enjoying growth rates of 30% or more a year. Datapoint Corp., Digital Equipment Corp., Prime Computers, Inc. and Data General Corp. are all leading suppliers of minicomputer designs for small-to medium-sized businesses. Massachusetts' Wang Laboratories is a leading manufacturer of word processors. One new small word processor company based in Boulder, Colo., calls itself NBI, which stands for Nothing But Initials. The hottest new firm of all, Apple (1979 sales: $75 million), is not yet five years old and plans its first public stock offering before year...
...year that the Third World collectively decided it had suffered long enough at our expense and sent vanguard elements to wreak havoc. Many feared nothing more complicated than nuclear holocaust; and a few still thought that, after all, it might be the Communists. If the peddlers of survival gear are to be believed, people have of late begun to act on their fears, caching enormous stores of dehydrated food and Geiger counters and, especially, firearms...
...vote for Carter is that they know what they're in for and they can predict what he can and can't do." Even with his mind made up for Reagan, Andy Sefcik isn't happy. Says he: "I worry that Reagan puts his mouth in gear before his brain is running. And that bothers me in a delicate foreign situation." What Andy would like is some way to protest the choices. After the candidates' names on the ballot, he'd like a "no preference" line to show his despair about the choices. Says...
...Indian Heritage Society's urging, the government is considering means of protecting the Taj, India's greatest tourist attraction (more than 3.5 million visitors a year). It has installed pollution-monitoring gear. It has also promised to relocate the power stations and foundries and to replace coal-burning locomotives with diesels. But these are expensive, perhaps ultimately unworkable solutions. Meanwhile, workmen are repairing and replacing marble slabs as fast as they can. So far, though, the pollutants are winning the race...
Some of this gear seems to be military. Circling at an altitude of about 320 km (200 miles), Salyut provides an ideally situated outpost for keeping an eye on military-related activities on the earth. Indeed, U.S. intelligence sources note that the Soviets have sent four unmanned satellites into orbit during the past three weeks, including one electronic eavesdropping vehicle. The frenzy is presumably part of their effort to keep tab on the war in the Persian Gulf...