Word: recorditis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legendary idiosyncrasy (for many years he made a point of building a new sailboat every winter and, inexplicably, burning it in the fall), he has devoted his professional life, first at Control Data and later with his own firm, to building the world's most powerful computers. His track record: an unequaled series of five major computer designs dating back to 1960, each for what would be the fastest machine of its time...
Giving is making a personal commitment to an institution. And people should not support an institution that would not have tolerated them or treated them equally. To do so would be to block out history. No one can afford to ignore the record of discrimination at this academic stronghold, nor let the solutions of the present overshadow memories of a problematic past...
Berkoff would end the day with another gold medal and another national record in 100-yd. backstroke. The record-breaking journey that had taken him from Cambridge to the 1988 Seoul Olympics and finally to Indianapolis had ended...
After Big Green running back David Clark set an Ivy League record by scoring on a 97-yd. touchdown run and wide receiver Craig Morton caught seven passes for 199 yards, those chances disappeared...
Multiplying signs that the record 6 1/2-year expansion is coming to an end present the Federal Reserve with the ticklish task of engineering a soft landing. The White House and Congress could help by cutting the budget deficit. -- To protect the environment and their profits, firms are recycling plastics. -- Mystery surrounds the death of an executive of Florida's troubled Gulf Power...