Word: randomed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Random House; 249 pages...
...Angeles owes some gratitude: the green bulk that rises beside the La Brea Tar Pits has been toned down from Goff's original sketches. It no longer flaunts pseudo-Aztec mosaic panels; its tower, which looked like a Hawaiian chief's headdress clapped on top of a random-rubble grotto, has been pruned; and the millions of little round mother-of-pearl tiles, like sequins, that were meant to encrust its inside columns have been replaced by cream plaster. Connoisseurs of Goff will also miss the grace notes of his other buildings: no orange carpet on the roof, no replicas...
...changes would also skew the very process of voting in the administration's favor. University candidates would be listed first on the ballot followed by petition nominees, instead of in the currently random order. Harvard would send a report to alumni promoting its slate. Ballots would be counted by the Harvard Alumni Records Office, rather than an independent accounting firm...
...something that gave him a chill. Buried near Sector 0, the disk's innermost circle, was evidence that the glitch that had swallowed six months of Joselow's professional life was not a glitch at all but a deliberate act of sabotage. There, standing out amid a stream of random letters and numbers, was the name and phone number of a Pakistani computer store and a message that read, in part: WELCOME TO THE DUNGEON . . . CONTACT US FOR VACCINATION...
Through price cutting, the Japanese and Koreans have virtually pushed U.S. semiconductor manufacturers out of the market for the dynamic random-access memory chip, or D-RAM, which serves as the electronic memory in thousands of devices, ranging from personal computers to toasters. Surging production of such products in the U.S. has caused a chip shortage that the Asian manufacturers have been able to exploit. During the first half of this year, Japanese companies shipped $978 million worth of semiconductors to the U.S., a 44% increase over the same period last year...