Word: productive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their collective brainchild, MARBLE, helps companies design and implement computer networks; simulates potentially devastating reactions--such as a nuclear reaction; designs software and hardware; and designs languages. "We market a service, not a product...
...said he did not expect to implement any major changes within the center, adding that he has been very close to Doty and has helped shaped some of the policy. However, Nye said. "We're going to try to bring the product of our research to a wider audience and make it even more accessible to the policy-making community...
...weapons-grade material. From 33 to 55 lbs. of U-235 at roughly 93% purity can be used in a Hiroshima-size bomb. Reprocessing is the chemical procedure for extracting Pu-239 from the spent uranium fuel of nuclear reactors, where the plutonium is produced as a waste product. A breeder reactor uses plutonium as fuel rather than uranium: by atomic fission, additional uranium placed in the breeder is converted into more plutonium than was consumed in the original reaction...
...money but "what he will risk for love." Ward has taken a similar chance in an age of upwardly mobile fiction. Passion informs every page of this tale without cheapening or glorifying its difficult subjects. They may not build 'em like they used to, but Red Baker is a product that any working fella can damn well be proud...
...past few months, American business has been close to comatose, and fears of recession have been increasing. The Commerce Department reported last week that the gross national product, after adjustment for inflation, grew at an annual rate of only .7% during the first three months of the year. That was down sharply from the 4.3% gain in the final quarter of 1984. In addition, corporate profits are off, capital spending is sagging and unemployment is stuck...