Word: groups
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trade battles between Japan and the U.S., few have provoked more friction than the fight over the semiconductor industry. Ten years ago, U.S. companies manufactured 80% of the world's computer microchips, but since then the Japanese have taken over roughly that share. Last week a group of seven American computer companies, including archrivals IBM and Digital Equipment, announced a move that might help the U.S. recoup some of its lost ground. The companies will create a joint venture that will manufacture and sell dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips using IBM technology...
...least $180 million) and leveraged- buyout king Henry Kravis ($110 million) in third place. But who was this in the No. 2 position? A relatively unknown dealmaker named Gordon Cain, 77, took that spot by earning an estimated $120 million last year through his Houston LBO firm, Sterling Group...
Fortunately for earth dwellers, the March flare occurred on the easternmost edge of the sun and thus aimed its full force away from the earth. But on March 10, when the sun's stately rotation brought the turbulent group of sunspots to a position more directly facing the earth, a second, only slightly less powerful flare erupted in the region. Eight minutes later, traveling at the speed of light, a blast of X ray and ultraviolet radiation seared the earth's upper atmosphere. Within an hour, high-energy protons began to arrive, followed in three days by a massive bombardment...
...Yankee, aware that a most timely total eclipse was going to occur, escaped being burned at the stake by King Arthur's knights when he predicted that the sun would disappear. A benign form of sun worship continues to this day, not only among beachgoers but also by a group of intrepid American astronomy buffs who have traveled around the world by plane, ship and jeep, from Java to Siberia to Africa, to view each of the past dozen total eclipses...
...they did. Six of them looked further, back into Mr. Keating's years at Helton, and discovered the Dead Poet's Society, a group of boys who went late at night to the old Indian cave in the woods and read poetry aloud to each other...