Word: simpler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...addition, the traditional statistics are increasingly likely to understate growth and productivity. The outputs of the old economy were simpler to measure: steel and cars and widgets are easily totted up. But the new economy defies compartmentalized measurement. Corporate software purchases, for instance, are not counted as economic investment. What is the value of cell phones that keep getting cheaper, or of E-mail? By traditional measures banking is contracting, yet there has been explosive growth in automated banking and credit-card transactions; the same for the way health care is delivered...
...real message was simpler: confronted with another disaster, Intel had survived. Again. It was as if Grove's personality and the characteristics that had served him best over the years--courage in the face of fear, passion in the face of discomfort--had been transmitted like tiny electrons into the substrate of Intel's tens of thousands of employees. Grove had saved the chip. Next it was time to save himself...
...answers--distance the air-conditioning units from the tank or fly with it full of fuel--would boost ticket prices. So would "inerting," injecting a nonexplosive gas to decrease the fuel's volatility, although the manufacturer of the $1.5 million inerting units used in some military planes claims that simpler civilian versions would cost just $80,000 per plane. Some inerting gases, however, are potentially lethal: they reduce one danger to passengers but increase another. Cautioned Boeing's chief fuel-system engineer, Ivor Thomas: "We would much prefer to be slow and careful and correct than to rush into something...
...committal and ephemeral relationships, have had the effect of diminishing the sanctity of sex. The 20-something actors on prime time television sitcoms now unabashedly discuss their sexual relationships before their young audiences in the way that the children on "The Cosby Show" once took pleasure in speaking of simpler, more innocent relationships. Along with so much else that has fallen prey to "progressivism," there are indications that chastity, not unlike its cousin chivalry, is passe...
...tasks. What's triggered the revolution? A generation of microprocessors small and brainy enough to bring PC power to the dumbest of appliances. Everything from computerized breadmakers to automated lawn mowers suggests that good housekeeping now requires at least two AA batteries (or a very long cord). Result: a simpler, smarter 21st century home. On the following pages, you'll find a TIME survey of the essential accoutrements for this Jetsons life-style...