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Perhaps the most spectacular example of the peril of venturing onto technology's edge is Trilogy Ltd. Founded in 1980 by Gene Amdahl, a former IBM engineer, it was to have been a bravura business encore by the man who created Amdahl Corp., a successful maker of big mainframe computers. Amdahl audaciously planned to build a new supercomputer based on a revolutionary semiconductor chip that would be far faster than conventional ones. But, concedes Trilogy President Frederick White, "it was just too much to bite off." The company abandoned plans for both its superchip and its supercomputer earlier this...
...market philosophy into the population debate. In Mexico City, the U.S. dele gation, headed by Radio Free Europe Director James Buckley, will argue that government interference with economies is a major reason why world population growth has changed "from an asset in the development of economic potential to a peril...
...growth of the bay area's population has been accompanied by the peril of pollution. The EPA found high concentrations of such heavy metals as copper, cadmium and lead in rivers flowing into the bay from Baltimore, Washington and other cities; high levels of organic compounds, including PCB's, Kepone and DDT, were detected in Pennsylvania and Virginia rivers that flow into...
...direct effect. The abolition of ROTC at Harvard did not materially hinder the war effort. ROTC was abolished at many universities yet there were still, a year after the Strike, enough officers to lead the ground troops into Cambodia. Nor did our protests put the war-makers in imminent peril. When the War finally stopped, those in control were faced not by a militant alliance of the forces of dissent, but rather by students and Panthers in considerable disarray...
Perhaps the most serious peril on the price front is the fate of the dollar. For several years, high American interest rates have encouraged foreigners to convert their money into dollars for investment in the U.S. Since 1980, the value of the dollar has risen about 50% against an average of ten major currencies. As a result, imports have become cheaper, and the U.S. is running a record trade deficit that puts downward pressure on the dollar. A steep plunge could kindle U.S. inflation by boosting the price of imports. Warned TIME Board Member Lester Thurow, an economics professor...