Word: majoring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million so far this year, plans to slash its payroll by 8,000 workers, or 9%. Wang, which lost $424 million during the past fiscal year, may be pushed into a merger. Former rising stars in personal computers, notably Commodore and Wyse Technology, are losing money. So are major software developers, including Ashton-Tate and WordStar International...
That pace of innovation does not exist today, many experts contend, in part because of the industry's maturity. Since most of the easy problems have been solved, the next major advances will come harder and slower. Rick Martin, who follows the industry for Prudential-Bache Securities, points out that software is still produced in the same four categories as it was nearly a decade ago: spreadsheets, data base, communications, and text or graphics processing. "There's no knock-'em-dead technology out there," he says. "There's nothing out there that makes you feel like you're missing something...
...Bill Haneke is energized by President John F. Kennedy's 1961 Inaugural speech calling for a new generation to bear any burden, meet any hardship. He returns from Southeast Asia minus a right leg, a left foot and an eye. Tommy Hayes, the son and grandson of West Point major generals, rejects the sanctuary of graduate school. In a letter home he writes, "My country has invested a great deal in me as a soldier. I should like to repay that investment." The price is his life, taken in the jungle north of Saigon...
...lone concession to the southern African nations is that they can appeal the CITES decision. If they prove that their herds are out of danger, they could engage in tightly controlled ivory trading. Yet if major consumer nations block imports, there will be little market for ivory...
...mountains. Scientists argued over the significance of this blank spot in the data. Then a year ago, activity ominously resumed, and last August brought a damaging earthquake. Such an increase in activity, notes Columbia's Scholz, seems to indicate that stress has built up to the point where a major release is imminent...