Word: micro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them involved in manufacturing silicon chips, related semiconductor devices and microcomputer-controlled products. At rush hour, cars inch along Highway 101, the valley's main drag, and peel off into the parking lots of well-manicured, one-and two-story buildings with names like Siliconix Inc., Synertek, Advanced Micro Devices, Signetica, and Intel Corp. Enveloped in their mystifying jargon of RAMS and ROMS and bits and bytes, the technicians who work in these factories would seem an alien breed to most Americans. Reports TIME Correspondent John Quirt: "Advances in chip making have come so fast that recent engineering graduates...
...free by governments, associations and corporations. Then the figures are fed into the most capacious computer that Burroughs has ever sold. Eckstein's econometric models, based on thousands of mathematical equations, produce not only forecasts of growth, inflation, interest rates and the like, but also thousands of micro forecasts of specific industries and products. The predictions change as new indicators are reported or major political developments occur. For example, 72 hours after the Arab oil embargo struck in 1973, Data Resources forecast just how much insurance companies' profits would surge because driving-and accidents -would decline...
...Department chairmen should be encouraged to investigate the possible benefits to student-Faculty contact that might accrue from organizing some of the larger departments into subgroups or micro-communities. While not denying there are some debits too, the Task Force felt that these divisions need not be formalized as full-fledged sub-departments, but might follow cleavages within fields that already exist on topical or theoretical lines...
However, Rosovsky's manner tended to be somewhat intimidating at times. When Bains said his proposed student advisory committee on the budget would examine budgetary issues on a "micro-level" while the CHUL could provide input on a "macro-level", Rosovsky, an economics professor, lifted his eyebrows and smirked with apparent disdain...
...Agunloye, who works in the micro text room, called the locked doors "very, very inconvenient. Instead of walking straight down, I have to go all the way around...