Word: groves
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...TIME chooses as its 1997 Man of the Year Andrew Steven Grove, chairman and CEO of Intel, the person most responsible for the amazing growth in the power and innovative potential of microchips. His character traits are emblematic of this amazing century: a paranoia bred from his having been a refugee from the Nazis and then the Communists; an entrepreneurial optimism instilled as an immigrant to a land brimming with freedom and opportunity; and a sharpness tinged with arrogance that comes from being a brilliant mind on the front line of a revolution...
Like his fellow wealth builders of the digital age, Grove's mission is his product, and he shuns the philosophical mantle and higher callings often adopted by titans of an earlier era. Ask him to ruminate on issues like the role of technology in our society, and his pixie face contorts into a frozen smile with impatient eyes. "Technology happens," he clips. "It's not good, it's not bad. Is steel good or bad?" The steel in his own character comes through at such moments. He has a courageous passion alloyed with an engineer's analytic coldness, whether...
TIME Man of the Year: Andrew Grove He?s in the chips: Intel?s head honcho nets TIME?s most prestigious moniker...
TIME Man of the Year: Andrew Grove He?s in the chips: Intel?s head honcho scoops TIME?s most prestigious award...
TIME Man of the Year: Andrew Grove He?s in the chips: Intel?s head honcho scoops TIME?s most prestigious award...