Word: siliconized
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...software capable of encoding messages so securely that police can't crack them. A law proposed by the FBI would mandate an electronic peephole in all encryption programs so that government agents can read your files. The FBI claims this is necessary to protect against criminals. But Silicon Valley chiefs see this as a threat, and are equipping Gillespie with a multimillion-dollar lobbying and media budget. Joining him to woo Democrats is lobbyist JACK QUINN, former counsel to Bill Clinton and ex-chief of staff to Al Gore...
...opinion surveys, California voters favor, 2 to 1, an initiative on the June ballot that would dismantle bilingual classes and replace them with a year of intensive English before immigrants are absorbed into the mainstream. The measure, called English for Children, is sponsored by Ron Unz, a wealthy Silicon Valley entrepreneur and former G.O.P. candidate for Governor...
Netscape today announced heavy casualties in its Browser Wars with Microsoft: The Silicon Valley start-up expects to post a surprise $85 million loss for the last quarter. Company officials blamed the 88-cent-per-share loss on the collapse of Pacific markets, as well as "competitive pressure" on its client-side browser software...
...however, we were pulled toward silicon as if it were magnetic. In a year filled with world-shaking events, the overriding story was the economy, but the driving force behind the economy has clearly been technology. And no one has done more to further technology's long march than our 1997 Man of the Year, Andrew Grove, the 61-year-old high-tech impresario who came to America a penniless refugee and went on to make Intel the Silicon Valley powerhouse whose microprocessors run 90% of the world's personal computers...
...Rise of Joel Klein The Justice Department antitrust tyro's first shot across Microsoft's bow (over the bundling of Windows 95 and Internet Explorer) served notice to Silicon Valley that there's a new, tech-savvy sheriff in town. Next in his scope: the looming battle over Windows 98 and a closer look at microchip colossus Intel...