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Word: silicon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think the problem is that to recruit students the way the big i-banking and consulting firms do is just beyond the means of smaller companies," Rahn says. "An educational non-profit can't fly people out to Harvard to recruit the way a Silicon Valley technology firm...

Author: By Erica R. Michelstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: What's the Real Info? | 10/29/1999 | See Source »

...leather is abundant and the dildos come with a lifetime warranty. "Yeah, I masturbate," says one sophomore in Quincy House, "though I never thought about using a dildo--not that I opposed to it or anything." For those who might want to give it a try, a standard issue silicon dildo will run you about $35, the larger sizes or uniquely decorative pieces can be a bit more expensive. But can you really put a price tag on being able to say "I masturbate with a silver glitter dildo...

Author: By Antoinette C. Nwandu, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Taking Matters Into Your Own Hands | 10/28/1999 | See Source »

Clark went on to found Silicon Graphics, Netscape and Healtheon, creating three multibillion-dollar companies. (So far.) I learned about Veblen--and loads about Clark--in Michael Lewis' new book, The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story (Norton; $25.95). It's a superb book and explains how engineers are the greatest creators of wealth in history and why Silicon Valley is the center of the universe (and how Clark came to be the center of the Valley). I tend to dislike most nonfiction, since so many writers approach their work as if they were doing the reader a favor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wealth Valley | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

Clark is the perfect Silicon Valley Man, though he was born "somewhere below the poverty line" in Plainview, Texas. His father abandoned the family when he was a child, and his mother should have been on welfare, but it "never occurred to her," Lewis writes. Clark, a classic malcontent, enlisted in the Navy after high school, was misevaluated and put in a class for especially slow delinquents, shipped out to sea, came back and was retested, this time scoring so well in math that it baffled his instructors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wealth Valley | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

...couple of marriages before reinventing himself and heading off to Stanford. There, he and his students designed a microchip he called the Geometry Engine, which allowed computers to visualize objects in 3-D. Fruitlessly, he tried to license the thing to IBM, DEC and Hewlett-Packard, before starting Silicon Graphics to sell workstations with the chip. That's where Clark honed his distaste for venture capitalists, whom he saw as stealing his enterprise and putting it in the hands of managers. Clark never let that happen again, keeping control when he got financing for Netscape and Healtheon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wealth Valley | 10/25/1999 | See Source »

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