Word: palos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...computer's benign influence extends to the handicapped. The tremendously arduous process of turning print into Braille for the blind has become a relatively simple mechanical routine. In April, Telesensory Systems Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., will start marketing a game center consisting of eight games for the unsighted; oscillating tones will replace the screen markings for contests like paddle ball; and synthesized speech will be used for other games such as tic-tac-toe, blackjack and skeet shoot...
...fierce com petition, business in the Valley of the Chips re mains something of a family affair. The corporate Abraham of the industry was Shockley Transistor Corp., founded in Palo Alto in 1956 by William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor and a Nobel laureate...
...dropout rate runs about 70% a year, compared with 35% overall.) Moreover, they argue, students learn better through a gradual transition into English. That argument, however, has not been proved. A 1977 nationwide study of 150 schools and 11,500 students, conducted by the American Institute for Research in Palo Alto, Calif., found that bilingual programs helped children learn such subjects as math...
...conservation by raising the cost of fuel to consumers. To many executives, that is wrongheaded reliance on Government fiat. The emphasis, they think, should be put on increasing production of oil, gas, coal and nuclear power by granting energy companies more incentives. David Packard, chairman of Hewlett-Packard Co., Palo Alto, Calif., a maker of measuring instruments, says with a snort that Energy Secretary James Schlesinger, who put the program together, "doesn't have the brains God granted a goose about the way the economic system is supposed to work...
...Phoenix by two anesthesiologists, Drs. Wallace A. Reed and John L. Ford. Since then, some 46,000 patients have passed through the six operating rooms of their Surgicenter. While the establishment has only recently begun to show a profit, it has spawned three satellite Surgicenters -in Sacramento and Palo Alto, Calif., and in Louisville-and inspired dozens of unaffiliated imitators in other cities. Says Ford: "Up to 40% of all surgery can be done on a come-and-go basis. Our objective is to keep people from being hospitalized who don't really need...