Word: notebook
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Runnerup: "Looking for a good way to lose some money this weekend? Try betting on the Princeton field hockey team, which brings a 2-2 Ivy League record into [Saturday's] game with Harvard."--M.D.S. in the Eclectic Notebook last week before the Tigers upset Harvard, 2-1, in overtime. Looks like he lost his shirt again...
...NOTEBOOK: In other Ivy League action, Yale can wrap up the season title with a victory over Cornell. A win would grant the Elis an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament--its first-ever appearance in the collegiate soccer championships. Yale defeated Harvard, 1-0, last month in New Haven, Conn. 1989 Ivy Men's Soccer Statistics...
...years ago, Compaq is expected to reach sales of $3 billion in 1989. Last week the company did it again. Compaq introduced its eagerly awaited LTE, a laptop machine that packs all the power of a desktop computer into a package small enough to fit into a briefcase. The notebook-size machine has a standard keyboard and an easy-to-read backlit screen. Most important, the 6-lb. machine is the only one of its size that accepts standard 3.5-in. diskettes, which will enable users to transfer files from laptop to desktop in a snap. "This one is easy...
...With the elevators out of service, Witteman walked down 398 steps to the ground. It was only when he got to the street and saw the blown-out third floor of the adjacent Golden Gate Bank building that he realized the ferocity of the earthquake. He pulled out his notebook and began reporting this week's cover stories...
Some executives contend that innovation is alive and well, citing such advances as notebook-size computers and high-speed RISC microprocessors. Says T.J. Rodgers, chief executive of Cypress Semiconductor: "What the bean counters who make projections forget is that in the next two to three years, we will have the next set of innovations, which will make them abandon their projections. It has happened before, and it will happen again." Don Valentine, a partner in Sequoia Capital, a venture-capital firm, contends that creative stagnation is confined mostly to the big corporations, including IBM, Wang and Unisys. Says he: "There...