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Word: lowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rounding out Harvard's first place finishes were two by now expected sweeps in the diving events. Mike Toal looked especially strong in winning the threemeter event with a score of 335.75, a new pool record. Sophomore Steve Schramm won the low board competition with a score of 291.95, while steady Jamie Greacen took second in both events...

Author: By Robert Grady, | Title: Swimmers Win in Home Finale; Pennsylvanians Drown, 79-34 | 2/21/1978 | See Source »

...through each core. These fragile and expensive core memories are now being replaced by semiconductor memories on chips. In addition to such "random access" memories, as they are called, computers have auxiliary memories in the form of magnetic tape or discs. These have the advantage of large capacity and low cost, and are used to store information in bulk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Science: The Numbers Game | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...deadly grasp: the men who fought in Viet Nam and the women they left behind. Like Shampoo, Coming Home offers a devastating vision of this country's recent social history, but the new film is no comedy. Coming Home is, as its material dictates, one long, low howl of pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Dark at the End off the Tunnel | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

Spending $500 million to expand in the beer business, Miller introduced the 7-oz. "pony" bottle and bought the Lite label for its low-calorie brew, which became a runaway success; Miller staged a high-budget ad campaign that featured Mickey Spillane and ex-Football Star Bubba Smith to give a macho image to Lite. In order to crack the highest-priced market segment, which has been dominated by Anheuser-Busch's Michelob and imports, Miller last October began national sales of Lowenbrau made under license in its U.S. breweries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Beer: Big Battles Are Brewing | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...That put Hirsch in a position to save Superior much time and money by telling which areas looked promising and which were duds. Mobil says he also knew its secret-bid calculation process, a complicated method of outguessing the competition in order to make bids for oil leases as low as possible, yet still win them. The Canadian suit named Arne R. Nielsen, president of Mobil Oil Canada, who was well versed in highly classified and arcane Mobil technology, including its airborne radar propane seep detector and computer graphics modeling system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Superior Seduction | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

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