Word: let
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...standing outside Leverett House. It's pretty calm, unless you count the 400 students slamming their bodies against the gate screaming "Party! Let us in! Party! Let...
Such speculation is unlikely to be fruitful. On the other hand, by looking at one specific person's reaction to the two main events, we might figure something out. Let's try President Bush...
...ability to remain optimistic would truly be commendable were optimism itself an object of value. About the stock market, our president said simply, "I'm not worried." Visiting California, Bush did let his emotions get the better of him when he said "Jesus" at the sight of Interstate 880. But he quickly recovered enough to sound presidential in expressing his "genuine appreciation for the way this community is pulling together...
What kind of rebel officers risk their lives to storm the lair of a hated military dictator, capture him at gunpoint, decline either to kill him or to turn him over to U.S. forces standing by to receive him, then let him contact his mistress, who calls loyal troops to his rescue...
...book uses this theoretical framework to focus on what has happened in the semiconductor industry. In particular, Gilder's analysis attacks the conventional view that the U.S. blundered in letting Japan take over the market for mass-produced memory chips. As he points out, the key component for a computer is not hardware but software, the instructions that make the machine work. When programs like Lotus 1-2-3 made the personal computer a runaway success in the early 1980s, IBM and other firms made a strategic decision to let Japan supply the demand for memory chips that U.S. chipmakers...