Word: segments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Johnson is serious about wines, but not too serious. Vintage offers some deadpan send-ups of oenophile pretension. One segment displays a dinner at a Madeira Club in Savannah, where tuxedo-clad grandees, after a traditional meal of turtle soup and roast duck, grope for words to describe some rare 19th century Malmseys and Verdelhos. "It's like the young Brahms and the mature Liszt," burbles one member...
...referendum forced the council actively to pursue divestment. But Offut's reelection as council chair in February of 1986 was interpreted as a conscious effort by council members to avoid political controversy and embrace issues--such as extending library hours and hosting social events--that would not alienate any segment of the student body...
...genetic code. The three-letter "words" they spell, reading in sequence along either side of the ladder, are instructions to the cell on how to assemble amino acids into the proteins essential to the structure and life of its host. Each complete DNA "sentence" is a gene, a discrete segment of the DNA string responsible for ordering the production of a specific protein...
Part of the line will run past Harvard's Medical School. Although there is currently an Orange Line stop near the school, the new segment would be several blocks closer to its campus...
Workstations are easily the fastest-growing segment of the computer industry. Sales reached $4.1 billion last year, a 53% increase over 1987. "This is a new era in computing," enthuses Data General President Edson de Castro. "It is the opportunity of a corporate lifetime." Last week the hottest, newest workstations went on display at San Francisco's UniForum. Once an obscure trade show, it attracted more than 22,000 computer buffs this year, and they were not disappointed. Some 250 exhibitors, from Apollo to Zenith, put their wares on display. Motorola rolled out a new line of workstations with...