Word: rushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more important pieces of legislation that got lost in the rush of last month's lame-duck session of Congress was President Reagan's much heralded Caribbean Basin Initiative. Originally proposed in February 1982, the CBI offered $350 million in short-term cash aid and a variety of long-term trade and tariff benefits for the struggling ministates of Central America and the Caribbean. Approved by the House and the Senate Finance Committee, the plan must be presented anew to the 98th Congress, although the short-term aid money has already been disbursed...
...believe that the headlong rush of private industry into relationships with universities and research institutions--if not handled carefully--could lead to an erosion of public trust in science, upon which all these enterprises depend. For example, previously, when new scientific break-throughs were announced, there was little concern that our scientists and universities were not operating candidly and in the public interest. But today, unfortunately, there may well be skepticism. When announcements of new "breakthroughs" are made today, one must always wonder whether these "discoveries" are really new or significant or whether they are simply creations of Madison Avenue...
Hewlett Packard is experimenting with machines that respond to vocal commands; Osborne is leading a rush toward portable computers, ideally no larger than a book. And for every innovator, there are at least five imitators selling copies...
...Jobs is deft at dealing with his peers and elders in commerce, a comforting combination of overnight plutocrat and shill for a new gold rush, he is positively hypnotic when he takes the computer gospel to the young. Jobs is youthful enough to fit right in and both bright enough and rich enough to get respect. Certainly, he does not live like a superstar. His pleasant home in Los Gates is nothing that would interest Architectural Digest: freshly laundered shirts lie on the floor of an unfurnished second bedroom, a love letter is magneted to the kitchen fridge, the master...
Inflation fears could snuff the investment rush to fixed-income securities...