Word: modernizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coming into a depart- ment that voted against your appointment. Youhave been imposed upon it by a personal decisionof the President, an act that, to my knowledge, isunexampled in the modern history of this Faculty,"Landes wrote...
Public acceptance of the predicament is improving. Reader's Digest and McCall's, among other magazines, run ads for incontinence products, though Modern Maturity rejects them as not "upbeat" enough. Television networks have eased restrictions. June Allyson, whose mother has the problem, is currently appearing in TV and print ads for Depend disposable pads and undergarments. Manufacturer Kimberly-Clark estimates that sales of all such products will reach $200 million this year. Procter & Gamble's Attends, once sold only to institutions, went on sale to the public nationwide last year, after consumers urged the company to make its Pampers...
...city streets and beneath oceans, in commercial skyscrapers and recesses of the Pentagon, a host of new technologies based on lasers, ultrapure glass fibers and exotic new materials are challenging the wonders of conventional electronic gadgetry. In little more than a decade, these inventions have moved from laboratories to modern homes, offices and factories. With growing speed, the new technology promises to turn the electronic age into the age of optics, in which gadgetry built around beams of light becomes virtually indispensable. Says Robert Spinrad, director of systems technology at Xerox: "The optics boom is just starting to explode. Optics...
...ambitious competition is the race to build the first optical computer, considered a practical impossibility only a few years ago. In theory, photons would race through such a machine with near perfect efficiency, which would make an optical computer 1,000 times as fast as the most advanced of modern electronic supercomputers. AT&T took a significant step toward that faraway goal in June by producing the first optical equivalent of a transistor. The Japanese, meanwhile, are developing a hybrid microchip that combines the most efficient aspects of electronics and optics. Declares Alan Huang, director of AT&T's optical...
...quirky father of modern horror, its uncle was the sobersided James, who was strongly influenced by the terrors that afflicted his family. His brother William, the pragmatic philosopher and investigator into the varieties of religious experience, recalled one of his most terrifying moments: "Suddenly there fell upon me without any warning, just as if it came out of the darkness, a horrible fear of my own existence. Simultaneously there arose in my mind the image of an epileptic patient . . . a black-haired youth with greenish skin . . . That shape am I, I felt, potentially." This was the image of monstrosity that...