Word: mapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...roughly every 24 months, even as costs fell by half. The rule (amended to 18 months) became known as Moore's law. Though it frustrates consumers--it's the reason that $2,500 PC you bought will be obsolete in a year--the law has given Intel a road map, allowing the company to shift resources ahead of demand rather than jumping crazily after the fact...
...money from Mexico to California for her drug boss Ordell (Samuel L. Jackson), who is variously inconvenienced by his lazily taunting girlfriend (Bridget Fonda), his low-IQ henchman (Robert De Niro), an eager fed (Michael Keaton) and an aging bail bondsman (Robert Forster), whose creased face is a road map of disappointment in the venality of humankind...
Although FAST hasn't generated revenues yet, its sponsorship of two rock concerts at Boston clubs put the company on the map. Taking a page in long-term planning from her homeland, Nan says the volunteers will be doing research and creating educational materials over the next couple of years. She projects that FAST won't be fully operational until around the turn of the century. Still, Bostonian Robert Tynes, co-founder of INA (Increase Your Natural Ability), a not-for-profit company that helps teens like Nan start and run their own businesses, is impressed with the speed...
...pieced together. As the first official sketch of the scene of Princess Diana's car crash is unveiled, the "second car" theory is gaining ground in investigators' eyes ? and a "probable collision zone" between Diana's Mercedes and what police suspect is a Fiat Uno is marked on their map of the fateful scene...
...EVERETT, an Alabama Republican who has been looking into the matter for months without reaching any conclusion. Smelling blood, JIM NICHOLSON, ex-Army Ranger and the chairman of the Republican National Committee, blasted away. "This action goes way beyond selling sleepovers in the Lincoln Bedroom, coffee parties in the Map Room, or Air Force One joyrides," Nicholson said...