Word: semis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to medical applications, molecular synthesis also has use in the semi-conductor and metals industry, panel members said...
Metallic glass has the potential to eliminate heat loss in transformers that currently wastes 1.5 percent of our country's power, according to Professor of Physics David R. Nelson, while Physics Professor Bertrand I. Halperin stressed the application of ultra-small structures in semi-conductors...
Also new on the Manhattan scene is Maxim's, the legendary fin-de-siecle set piece on Paris' Rue Royale, now owned by Pierre Cardin. In the New York outpost, the semi-nouvelle French cuisine has been more memorable for its price ($65 for prix-fixe dinner) than for its excellence. The cream of mussel soup known as billi-bi, a Maxim's invention, is decently turned out, but stale-tasting duck pate and the overly complicated, overcooked saddle of lamb with basil cream could not even be considered near misses. The gaudy interior, a bad copy of the Paris...
...accounted for all his team's goals in the quarter- and semi-finals, but Diego Armando Maradona, 25, won soccer's World Cup for Argentina last week by not scoring a single point. Throughout the final match against West Germany before a Mexico City crowd of nearly 115,000, the short, burly superstar with the pumping-piston legs played the decoy, drawing suffocating attention from as many as three defenders whenever he got the ball. A foul against him led to the first score, and with only six minutes remaining in the game, Maradona angled a perfect pass to Midfielder...
...rising democracy, a comeback for capitalism and free trade. Thus the Secretary flew first to Hong Kong, a bastion of free enterprise on the tip of China, and ended his trip with a stopover in Palau, a U.S. territory in the South Pacific that voted in February to become semi-independent while granting the U.S. continued military-base rights...