Word: rams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fiercest U.S.-Japanese contests will be in the production of memory chips, which accounted for 22% of last year's $14.6 billion in semiconductor sales worldwide. Japanese companies startled the U.S. industry by capturing 70% of the market for the bestseling 64K RAM (for random-access memory), a chip that can store 65,536 bits of information. Now the battlefront is moving to the next generation of chips: a 256K RAM, which has four times the memory capacity of the 64K and is expected to generate annual sales of up to $3.5 billion by 1987. At least six Japanese...
Western Electric advertisements proclaim that its 256K RAM is "shattering the myth that America has fallen behind in microelectronics technology." The company has vast financial resources and unquestioned technological prowess, but skeptics wonder if it has enough marketing skill for the fast-moving chip competition. Asks George Gilder in Release 1.0, an electronics-industry newsletter: "Can a monopoly-coddled monster find happiness in the merchant semiconductor mar ket? Can an elephant play jacks...
...massacre, three trucks slowly carried the coffins of four victims, draped with wreaths and national flags, from the trade union hall of Jinotega to the local church. At least 2,000 townspeople solemnly marched alongside. Their anger, however, was not reserved exclusively for the contras. Insisted Truck Driver Juan Ramón Hernandez, "It's the army's fault. They allow the soldiers to take these civilian buses. The contras know this and so they ambush them and innocent people are killed...
...second engine went out, an elaborate series of automatic backup mechanisms was activated. A 24-volt nickel-cadmium emergency battery took over the plane's dead electrical system, providing enough juice to operate the radio and the key instruments in the cockpit. At the same time, a ram-air turbine dropped into position beneath the aircraft's belly. The airstream passing through the turbine generated enough pressure to activate the part of the hydraulic system that controls the flight spoilers, rudder and ailerons. This allowed Pearson, who happened to be an experienced glider pilot, to control the craft...
...same tactics the military junta in Buenos Aires used in its "dirty war" against leftist terrorists in the 1970s. According to human rights activists, 34 people have been murdered and an additional five have disappeared under mysterious circumstances. In April, paramilitary squads gunned down three trade-union leaders. Says Ramón Custodio López, a doctor who helped found the Honduran Commission for the Defense of Human Rights: "The repression is systematic. It is directed against anyone suspected of being a sympathizer or supporter of the revolution in El Salvador or in Nicaragua...