Word: lasered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year after President Ronald Reagan unveiled his proposal for stationing a U.S. missile defense system in space, the basic feasibility of the idea continues to generate superheated controversy. It has been soundly endorsed by two Pentagon scientific commissions, which contend that advances in laser and other directed-energy technology make zapping enemy missiles from space a viable defense strategy. Last week the results of an inquiry into the notion were announced by a nine-man study group of the Union of Concerned Scientists, an organization based in Cambridge, Mass., that supports a nuclear freeze and has been critical...
Ideology aside, Darman's laser-like political foresight has served his boss well...
...from Harvard, the Illinois-born Perkins went west 27 years ago to work at Hewlett-Packard, the Palo Alto, Calif., electronics firm. In 1966 he took $15,000 that he and his wife had been saving to buy a house and invested it in University Laboratories, a Berkeley, Calif., laser company. That stake returned $2 million and launched Perkins' career as a venture capitalist...
DIED. Alfred Kastler, 81, French physicist who won the 1966 Nobel Prize for his studies of polarized light that paved the way for the development of the laser; in Bandol, France. Kastler was drawn to the study of light ever since becoming impressed as a child by a solar eclipse. A self-effacing scientist with outspoken political views, he was a pacifist who strongly opposed nuclear weapons and the war in Viet...
...featured speaker, former Boston mayoral candidate Michael Gelber, uses his address to lay out a comprehensive plan to reduce unemployment through development of laser weapon stations on the moon. Bok is seen nodding thoughtfully...