Word: randomed
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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...
Silicon Valley has become famous for a laid-back corporate-management style that includes hot-tub conferences. Now along comes Andrew Grove, president of Intel, a leading semiconductor maker, with the valley's first primer on business: High Output Management (Random House; 235 pages...
...people, Marielitos account for 25% of the cocaine trade. In New Orleans, over a ten-month period ending last April, there were 15 Cuban homicides involving 29 Marielitos as either murderers or victims. This criminal element tends to prey on other Cubans; its tastes run to brutal crimes of random opportunity. A chilling example is a Marielito who specializes in assaulting Miami Beach's elderly. One 90-year-old victim was hurled from his bed, kicked in the face so hard he lost his left eye, choked, smothered with a pillow and left for dead...
Often the anger is directed at the whole female sex. Rapists tend to view women with a mixture of reverence and resentment. They choose random women on whom to vent their roiling rage about mothers who mistreated them or women who rejected them. "I was angry with my wife for having a crush on my brother, and I was angry with the first girl I went out with when I was 17 who told me I wasn't assertive enough," said John, a rapist in the sex-offender program at Western State Hospital at Fort Steilacoom, Wash. "I felt judged...
...AENEID Translated by Robert Fitzgerald; Random House; 416 pages...