Word: lasered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they want quick, highly maneuverable vehicles. General Motors' Pontiac division, which had expected to sell 65,000 of its agile, two-seat Fiero (base sticker price: $8,310) this year, now says sales will top 100,000. Momentum is also building for the $15,500 turbo-powered Chrysler Laser and Dodge Daytona, which have a claimed top speed of 125 m.p.h. In California, one of the strongest sellers is the Chevrolet Camaro Berlinetta, a luxury sports car. Loaded with options such as a sunroof, digital instruments and a cassette player, it sells for about...
...even losing its supremacy in high-technology goods. Its trade surplus for these products, including computers and telecommunications gear, has dropped from $25.5 billion in 1980 to $17 billion last year. Spectra-Physics, a San Jose, Calif.-based manufacturer of laser equipment, says that its share of the world market for some products has fallen from 75% to 50% in only three years...
Your otherwise brilliant Essay on Star Wars weapons is fatally flawed by the omission of one critically important fact: the Soviet Union launched a crash program 14 years ago to develop space-age weaponry, notably particle and laser beams designed to melt ICBMs in their silos or in flight. If the U.S.S.R. is first with this type of capability, would the Kremlin not use its monopoly to impose its political objectives on earth? We cannot assume that Moscow would behave the way the U.S. did when it enjoyed an atomic monopoly for a brief period after World...
...sets to more varied uses and demanding more from their TVs than just a reasonably clear picture of Dan Rather reading the evening news. First they began playing video games, whose fancy graphics show up best with a sharp display. Now people are showing movies on their TV with laser-disc machines and videocassette recorders, and they want picture and sound quality at home that approaches what they can get in a movie theater...
...praise is not entirely fulsome. Prophetic fiction owes its very existence to Wells. He was, as Joseph Conrad wrote, a "realist of the fantastic." In The World Set Free, he predicted the atom bomb; in The Island of Dr. Moreau, organ transplants; in The War of the Worlds, laser beams. Wells also produced a vast body of nonfiction, capped by The Outline of History, an almost hysterically optimistic attempt to trace mankind's ascent from darkness to a science-aided summit far from the present day. Like most of Wells' work, it was a monumental bestseller...