Word: rammed
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Japan is quietly trying to displace the U.S., where integrated circuits were developed early in the 1960s, as the world's leading designer and producer of computer hardware. Already Japanese companies control nearly 25% of the world chip market. Japanese manufacturers have made serious inroads in the 16K RAM (for random access memory) chip, which is capable of containing 16,384 separate bits of information. Japanese producers now control 40% of that U.S. market...
...Brad Bauer hadn't singled in an unearned run in the bottom of the ninth, both fanatics who braved the elements to the end might have left the Candlestick-of-the-East emptyhanded. Luckily, Chuck Marshall reached base on a miscue by Ram shortstop Steve Galuska, moved to second on a passed ball and trudged home two outs later on a Bauer liner for the only Crimson tally...
After the teams exchanged punts, Ram safety Dave Elmendorf intercepted an errant Bradshaw pass. Ferragamo passed the Rams down the field, and Corral ended the half by booting a 45-yd. field goal to give the Rams a 13-10 lead...
...Gandhi had delivered her most crushing blow to Jagjivan Ram's Janata Party, which had emerged triumphant in the 1977 election. Though Janata had split into two factions last summer, pundits favored Ram to become Prime Minister as head of a coalition government. Ram was re-elected to Parliament last week, but his party picked up only 31 seats, compared with 295 in 1977. Particularly mortifying to Ram, an Untouchable, was the fact that the majority of his 85 million fellow harijans had voted for the party of Mrs. Gandhi, an upper-class Brahmin...
After receiving congratulations from Ram and Singh, Mrs. Gandhi proceeded to New Delhi's imposing Parliament House. Dressed for the occasion in a shiny new red and gold sari, she received bouquets of roses and garlands of white flowers from the 350 legislators who had been elected under her leadership. President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy then formally invited her to form a government...