Word: launching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...five-year-old he could calculate complex mathematical progressions, and as a grownup he figured out that raw computing power was growing and the price dropping so quickly that one day every office and home in America would have a computer. With his partner L.J. Sevin, he helped launch Silicon Valley legends such as Lotus Development, Cypress Semiconductor, Borland International and an outfit called Compaq, the world's largest personal-computer maker. He's still chairman. "My brother has done pretty well for himself," says Harold with a smile. Little brother is worth about $100 million...
...cashless society, is developing what it calls an Electronic Monetary System that will permit consumers and companies to make payments electronically anywhere in the world. Visa, fresh off a test of 300,000 smart cards--plastic embedded with a cache of electronic cash--at the Atlanta Olympics, will soon launch similar projects in 14 other countries, including Canada, Australia and in Hong Kong...
...traditional models of analysis that continue to bear my respect, and feeling myself qualified as a cinephile for familial reasons (my father, a self-educated individual had such an abiding love for silent film that my childhood was spent in front of 16-millimeter films) it seemed propitious to launch a course on French cinema. It began with an enrollment of 120, soon split into two sections ("realism" and "new wave"), and then ramified into seminar-topics ("auteur" theory, structural cinema, cinema of cruelty...). The course became something of a machine, what Gilles Deleuze would have called a "spiritual automaton...
...last, he tried to do so. All summer long, as his party allies snorted and pawed over a double-digit gap in the polls, Dole remained serene in his conviction that voters wouldn't start paying attention to politics until the traditional Labor Day launch of the general election. The nominee had told nearly every audience for months that he would burst upon the scene in September after a successful convention, with a popular vice-presidential candidate and a clear economic message. Best of all, he said, his cash-starved campaign would be revived by $62 million in federal funds...
...transcontinental railroad. As usual, Burns and Ives use personal stories to humanize large events. We learn, for example, about Charles Goodnight, the Texas rancher who returned from the Civil War, found that cattle prices had plummeted and decided to take his herd north to look for buyers--thus helping launch the era of the great cattle drives. The story of the California gold rush is framed by the diary and letters of William Swain, who left his wife and family in western New York State, endured a grueling overland journey to California to seek his fortune, only to head back...