Word: processors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Milwaukee judge who sentenced serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to 15 consecutive life terms appears to be rushing from the bench to the word processor. According to a recent ad in Daily Variety, Laurence Gram's The Jeffrey Dahmer Case: A Judge's Perspective is in the works. And so is a film script titled The Jeffrey Dahmer Confessions, to be based on the judge's book but not written by him. "The judge doesn't want a horror picture per se," says agent Lew Breyer. "But I have written in one or two horror scenes that are horrific in describing...
Because each processor can concentrate on its own task, the system as a whole can achieve extremely rapid computing speed. On Cambridge company, Thinking Machines, has built computers that can carry out billions of arithmetic calculations per second...
...Goodman International, Europe's biggest beef processor, is being investigated for possible fraud, including the export of 13-year-old meat. The firm rejects the charges...
...makes good sense. In the business world, it is already being embraced as a tool to train workers in such complex skills as aircraft maintenance and computer repair. But multimedia still lacks what computer companies call the "killer application," a program like the electronic spreadsheet or the word processor that is so compelling that consumers will buy a new device just to run it. As Marshall McLuhan pointed out, every new medium takes its content from its predecessor: early films were simply recorded stage plays; the first TV shows were converted radio dramas. The same is probably true of this...
...fairy tale is heading for a no-no era denouement. In 1976 ex- encyclopedia salesman William Farley bought a California citrus processor with just $25,000 of his own money. Within years, he ruled over a multibillion-dollar empire. Then came Farley's folly: the 1989 leveraged buyout of sheet-and-towel giant West Point-Pepperell, for $1.6 billion. Burdened by debt, he endured the junk-bond collapse, the recession and the gulf war. But last week Farley accepted a "prepackaged" bankruptcy plan that will slash his share of West Point-Pepperell from 95% to 5%, the biggest blow...