Word: happening
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This house is one of the best we've gotten," Sister Grace says as she appraises the building. "It is everyone working together that makes this happen. That is love of neighbor. Little by little you take each family and do what...
...size computers and high-speed RISC microprocessors. Says T.J. Rodgers, chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor: "What the bean counters who make projections forget is that in the next two to three years, we will have the next set of innovations, which will make them abandon their projections. It has happened before, and it will happen again." Don Valentine, a partner in Sequoia Capital, a venture-capital firm, contends that creative stagnation is confined mostly to the big corporations, including IBM, Wang and Unisys. Says he: "There is no innovation at the dinosaur companies that are run by Neanderthals. Perhaps they...
...Democratic Movement, says Viljoen's proposal would cause the A.N.C. to "lose ground" if it were simply "one of many groups." Zulu Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, head of the 1.5 million-member Inkatha movement and an opponent of the A.N.C.'s socialist orientation, responds, "I shudder to think what would happen to South Africa if we all stood aside and allowed only one black party to negotiate the country's future." To try to hurdle this and other obstacles and preconditions, Viljoen suggests preliminary "talks about talks...
...which unquestionably reflects the wishes of Gorbachev, would be an irrefusable offer. But Starkov so far remains in his job. "Everything here is normal," he said late last week. "I put my signature on this week's edition, and I plan to sign the next one too. Mistakes sometimes happen." Starkov retains the support of his staff, some of whom have threatened to go out on strike, while worried readers have been pestering phone-in television shows, inquiring about the fate of the editor...
Still, there is a vast difference between suggesting that an earthquake is likely to happen and pinpointing when. For now, scientists cannot say whether a specific section of the San Andreas fault will snap in one year's time or in a hundred, but they are working on it. Seismic silence is one clue. Soundings taken along the San Andreas over the past 15 years showed that the small earthquakes that are a daily event along other parts of the system were not occurring in the Santa Cruz mountains. Scientists argued over the significance of this blank spot...