Word: impactful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have room-temperature superconductors in less than a year." Adds IBM's Praveen Chaudhari: "All the mental barriers are gone. No one is asking how high it will go anymore." If room-temperature superconductivity is achieved, whether in a year or in a score of years, its impact will be incalculable. The need for refrigerators and insulation, even for liquid / nitrogen, will be gone. And the costs of this still futuristic technology could drop more dramatically than anyone expects. Says IBM's Paul Grant: "We're looking. Everyone is." Adds IBM's William Gallagher: "We shouldn't let our imaginations...
...superlatives roll in. "In terms of the societal impact, this could well be the breakthrough of the 1980s in the sense that the transistor was the breakthrough of the 1950s," says Alan Schriesheim, director of Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. Indeed, scientists hardly know where to start in describing the bonanza that superconductors could yield...
...this sense, history--drastically and brutally speeded up by the American impact--may pass the Vietcong by. Societies are susceptible to revolution only at particular stages in their development. At the moment, the rates of urbanization and of modernization in the secure rural areas exceed the rate of increase of Vietcong strength...
...lift" dive, and plummeted toward Williams at a speed of around 200 m.p.h. The effort was like "trying to catch a football that was flopping down the road at 40 m.p.h.," said Bill Rothe, Williams' fiance, who watched from the ground. At 3,500 ft., about ten seconds before impact, Robertson caught up with Williams, almost hitting her but slowing his own descent by assuming the open-body froglike position. He angled the unconscious sky diver so her chute could open readily and, at 2,000 ft., with some six seconds left, yanked the rip cord on her emergency chute...
...lead to a vexing patchwork of similar statutes in other states, 20 of which have already passed laws restricting takeovers. "It's a sad day for stockholders," Financier T. Boone Pickens told TIME. "I can't believe the Supreme Court fully understood what it was doing." The biggest impact would be felt if Delaware passed an Indiana-style law. Reason: nearly three-fourths of corporations on the FORTUNE 500 list of industrial firms are chartered in that state...