Word: quirt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...story buildings with names like Siliconix Inc., Synertek, Advanced Micro Devices, Signetica, and Intel Corp. Enveloped in their mystifying jargon of RAMS and ROMS and bits and bytes, the technicians who work in these factories would seem an alien breed to most Americans. Reports TIME Correspondent John Quirt: "Advances in chip making have come so fast that recent engineering graduates are almost the only ones around who fully understand the technology. In one facility I visited, technicians looked as if they had come straight from a college classroom - and many of them...
...York. Starting a casino, however, hardly gives investors a license to coin money, as the owners of some deficit-ridden Nevada operations have discovered: gambling is a fast-paced, cash-heavy business that, like any other, must be tightly run to turn a profit. How tightly, TIME Correspondent John Quirt learned by studying Harrah's, one of the oldest (it celebrated its 40th birthday Oct. 30) and most successful Nevada gaming concerns. His report...
...following stories probe beyond the line scores into the contrasting characters of the two teams. The story on the fractious Yankees was reported and written by Senior Correspondent Robert Ajemian. That on the ever-lovin' Dodgers was written by Associate Editor B.J. Phillips with reports from John Quirt and Jack Tobin in Los Angeles...
What makes Irvine so desirable? TIME Correspondent John Quirt toured the ranch and discussed the impending takeover with Irvine executives and outsiders. His report...
...dormitories, kitchens, game rooms and offices and fully equipped right down to the telephones and Coke machines. Alyeska's most prized offering: 1,500 elaborately insulated outhouses built, at a cost of $ 10,000 each, to serve in comfort in -70° temperatures. TIME Correspondent John Quirt toured the line as its builders, a consortium of eight U.S. and British oil companies, hurried to complete the largest private construction job ever undertaken in the U.S. His report...