Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many buyers of chips, however, complain that the Government is protecting one high-tech industry by raising costs for many others. The protests have even come from the European Community, which believes its computer makers could be hurt by rising semiconductor costs. At Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, Calif., the cost of producing a system containing 144 one-megabit memory chips has nearly doubled because the semiconductors have increased in price from $22 to $107. Says Jerry Sugar, president of Classic Technology, a computer-systems maker in San Jose: "I called Washington to protest. Higher chip prices are going...
These threatened ecosystems have already proved a valuable source of medicines, foods and new seed stock for crops. Nine years ago, for example, a strain of perennial, disease-resistant wild maize named Zea diploperennis was found in a Mexican mountain forest, growing in three small plots. Crossing domestic corn varieties with this maize produces hardy hybrids that should ultimately be worth billions of dollars to farmers. A great many of the prescription drugs sold in the U.S. are based on unique chemical compounds found in tropical plants. For example, vincristine, originally isolated from the Madagascan periwinkle, is used to treat...
...awesome. I have no other words to describe it, an almost hour-long musical Walpurgisnacht, set to Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain. The most impressive moment of the evening occured just before the musical climax of the piece--the music just stopped, like the blade of a guillotine. The dancers paused for a moment, waiting for--the beat! Congas! Big band style, Gene Krupka back from the dead...
...brilliant creation of a shared nightmare." A marriage breaks up and a trusted dog suddenly turns on its owners; a teenager's love affair with his Plymouth Fury is totaled when the car is possessed by the vengeful ghost of a previous owner; the caretaker of a vast mountain resort hotel finds himself slowly overtaken by the malevolent spirits envisioned by his little boy; two college students volunteer for a government experiment and become parents of a daughter with a unique gift: she can make things burst into flame with the force of her will. All of these fantasies...
...that date, the pathway down Quad Ravine--the three-foot-deep gulley crafted down the middle of the quad to allow trucks and workmen into the hole and the mountain--will become a treacherous travail through ice and snow. One can only wonder at the number of additional people on crutches due to the new alleyway...