Word: makers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...world's largest computer maker has long shied away from the industry's most advanced field of all: supercomputers, the lightning-fast machines that can make billions of calculations per second. Last week IBM suddenly announced that it is souping up. In an unorthodox arrangement for a company that develops most of its projects internally, Big Blue plans to join forces with an outsider, Steve Chen, a leading supercomputer designer, to develop a machine for the 1990s that will be 100 times faster than today's speediest devices. Chen started his own tiny research company, Supercomputer Systems, of Eau Claire...
MOST CONFUSING FISH DISH Dubbed Skin Caviar by its maker, La Prairie, and packed with a silvery spoon, this chemical anti-aging goop looks good enough to eat. It raises the question of whether these tiny pearly grains are meant to be spread on toast or on one's face. The latter is the answer, of course, but if stored in the refrigerator, Skin Caviar, at $65 for two ounces, could lead to some surprise snacking...
...bathroom large enough for championship table tennis, Steve Tillotson, a burly Vermont deconstruction expert who has been with the company since it started, and another worker pry loose a 6-ft.-long china bathtub with lion-claw feet. They flip it onto a mover's pallet and study the maker's mark on its bottom, as if they had unearthed an Egyptian artifact. "Ideal 3806," reads Tillotson with a sigh of respect. "It was made by Ideal on March 8, 1906." They trundle the fixture down a listing hallway to join half a dozen others...
...Shawwa, their nominal leader, has been described by one Israeli official as a "commander without soldiers." He can summon little political clout and no armed support. To talk to educated Gazans is to hear a litany of helplessness. "We lack leaders," sighs Farouq Abu Sharq, a self-employed furniture maker. "So what...
...think genetically altered bugs might behave unpredictably in the wild, setting off an ecological catastrophe or disrupting local ecosystems. Most scientists consider the public's fears exaggerated, but they nonetheless acknowledge the need for caution. Says David Drahos, a senior research group leader at Monsanto, the giant chemical maker that is sponsoring the Clemson test: "We are all in the process of learning something very new and wanting to do it wisely and carefully...