Word: scopus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Azevedo, president of SUCESU, a nationwide society of computer users. "The problem," he adds, "is that the prices are too high." For example, the latest Scopus machine sells for $6,000, while a comparably equipped IBM Personal Computer costs...
...success story could have come from California's Silicon Valley. Three young, blue-jeans-clad engineers tinkered with computer ideas in a garage and eventually designed a successful desktop machine. Their company, Scopus, grew so rapidly that by 1983 it had sales of $26 million. But this is not just another California start-up-to-success story. Housed in a modest concrete building, the eight-year-old firm operates out of a rundown industrial neighborhood on the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil's biggest city...
...Scopus is now among the country's largest makers of personal computers and a leader of its remarkable data-processing industry. Despite economic woes that range from a 230% inflation rate to an estimated $96 billion foreign debt, the Third World's highest, Brazil has managed to become a thriving computer center. More than 100 Brazilian firms turn out microprocessors, terminals, printers and related products, and account for nearly 50% of the $1.48 billion worth of data-processing equipment that was sold domestically last year. As recently as 1976, not a single locally made computer...
...fledgling designers got a big boost from the government's willingness to bar foreign firms from producing or selling microcomputers and minicomputers in Brazil. Without such a policy, the engineers argued, the domestic computer makers would have no chance to grow. Says Scopus President Edson Fregni, 36: "If you are an ant living next to an elephant, there is always the chance that he might step...
...July, U.C.L.A. Hematologist Martin Cline and colleagues at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus and at a clinic of the University of Naples performed gene transfers on two female patients. Both had severe thalassemia, an inherited blood disorder in which the bone marrow produces red cells with defective hemoglobin (the molecule that carries oxygen to body tissues). Victims need frequent blood transfusions, but this leads to a buildup of iron in the body, particularly the heart, that can eventually cause death...