Word: micros
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...second option is to buy Micro-a-Go-Go microcomputers small enough to sit on a desk but powerful enough to serve eight terminals. They cost about $20,000 each, but the cost should decline as computer technology advances, Law said. The microcomputers lack many of the features of larger machines, however, he added...
...Thursday John Paul stood for nearly two hours in a driving rain to meet workers in a soccer stadium in Sao Pau lo. He seemed to be drawn deeper into politics. As soon as John Paul finished his greetings, a metalworker took the micro phone, and implored him to support workers as they "break the barrier imposed by the political system that governs us." The Pope called out for social justice. But he added a line that again emerged at the heart of his message. Social justice "cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create...
...circuits plunged and the industry reacted by slashing capital spending in new plants and equipment by 52%. During 1979, however, demand for the chips surged as toymakers and electronics companies incorporated them into TV computer games and "smart toys" for tots. But domestic producers such as Intel, Advanced Micro Devices and Texas Instruments were unable to fill the orders. Japanese manufacturers quickly filled...
...Gnomon Corporation reached an out-of-court settlement with seven publishers last Tuesday, agreeing to stop micro-publishing--printing anthologies for professors--and to limit other multiple copying of books, newspapers and magazines...
...made the adjustment perfectly. "I'm glad we got him," says Jean Phillips, associate dean of students. "He's a breath of fresh air." Stanley is responsible for a great deal of Carleton's daily functioning as well as for serious, long-term academic planning. "I'm a micro-Rosovsky," he explains, a teaching/scholarly dean whose primary responsibility is with the faculty. Moving from the stacks of Yenching Library to a desk in an administrative building, Stanley has confronted a "set of problems that are natural and human." Nothing is abstract and unimaginable--from deciding on budget expenditures to dealing...