Word: siliconized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...phone for posterity seem both sordid and self-incriminating. Anointing a personal Boswell to hang around the house also turned out to be troublesome, as shown by the ill-conceived rumblings about summoning Edmund Morris, the President's designated biographer, to testify before the Iran-contra probers. Not even silicon chips offer much promise anymore. Those electronic messages that national-security staffers zapped to one another's computer screens, which were fortunately recorded in deep memory for future scribes, violated the cardinal rule of modern government: never leave footprints. Electronic memory shredders will, no doubt, be a feature...
...improbable. In June 1985 Apple laid off 1,200 of its 5,500 workers (the company has since expanded to a work force of 6,500). Retail computer stores suffered a shake-out that forced an estimated 1,600 of them out of business by 1986. California's famed Silicon Valley suddenly felt more like Death Valley to some of its denizens. The problem: most Americans felt no need to spend hundreds of dollars to install computers in their homes, and chief executives of FORTUNE 500 companies began insisting that underlings make better use of the plethora of machines they...
What has helped improve customers' appetites is the diversity of new products available. The most exciting ingredient, which will be the heart of 50 different computer models by year's end, is a $235 piece of silicon known as the 80386 microchip. It is this flat, black chip -- smaller than a matchbook -- that has powered the biggest advance in computer technology in recent memory. The 80386 brings to personal computers the speed and power that were once available only in larger and much more expensive minicomputers. IBM, Compaq and Tandy have built new high-end machines around this chip, which...
Although he hailed from California, the Mecca of high-tech entrepreneurship, he made his mark not in silicon chips or spliced genes but in the mundane business of steam cleaning carpets and draperies. Nonetheless, Barry Minkow was touted as a genuine hero of the '80s -- a cocky, self-made overachiever who at age 15 started a garage-shop carpet-cleaning operation called ZZZZ Best (pronounced zeee best) and within six years built it into a $200 million empire. He was a millionaire at 18, and by the time he turned 21 last March, he was the darling of Wall Street...
...following this plot. Lieut. Tuck Pendelton (Dennis Quaid), a right- stuff pilot, volunteers for a Silicon Valley experiment in which he will be placed in a space capsule, miniaturized and inserted into a rabbit's body. But rival scientists invade the lab, and tiny Tuck is injected into the body of Jack Putter (Martin Short), a wimpy Safeway clerk. Before Tuck's oxygen supply runs out -- at 9 tomorrow morning -- Jack must find the courage and smarts to escape from a speeding truck, undergo a frightening face-lifting, steal a vital microchip, fight off a couple of midget dastards...