Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Texas Instruments 99/4A ($450). The sleeper of the year. In 1978, when it retailed for $1,100, it was a market failure of historic proportions. The company upgraded the keyboard, hired Bill Cosby to do its commercials and drastically cut prices. Sales exploded. T.I. shipped 530,000 in 1982, and...
As pilot of the command ship during Apollo ll's 1969 historic flight to the moon, Astronaut Mike Collins had perhaps less reason than his lunar-walking buddies to fret about the clumsy, complex garments that protected them from the harsh vacuum of space. But some of today'...
Others are trying to capitalize on the historic surgery. Clark's wife Una Loy has been besieged with requests for exclusive rights to her husband's story. And Hollywood is about to release Threshold, a film about a surgeon who implants the world's first artificial heart...
A GREAT NUMBER of the problems that developed in the power plants grew out of the cozy partnership set up between the A.E.C. and the growing nuclear power industry. Necessary safeguards were often dismissed because of the additional cost to contractors, and a tremendous amount of attention was played to...
A. Our concern over the threat from Western countries, of "imperialism," is a historic policy. And our history seems to have justified this concern. You also took part, after all, in the military intervention against us in 1918. We were invaded by Germany in World War II, at the cost...