Word: speeded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inventing the transistor 21 years ago, researchers at the Bell Telephone Laboratories paved the way for most of the sophisticated electronic marvels of the 1960s-most notably the miniaturized, high-speed computer. Now they may have done it again. A versatile new device conjured up by the wizards at Bell may eventually make current computers as old-fashioned as the abacus...
...automakers cannot compete with the imports on the basis of price. Instead they are gambling that potential foreign-car buyers will pay a bit more in original cost and operating expense to gain speed and seating space. Even so, profits on the small cars are going to be slim compared with those on larger models like the Mustang, which are offered with expensive options that can double their price and profitability. If U.S. automakers have miscalculated about the kind of small car American buyers want, they could end up selling cheap cars to customers who otherwise would have bought more...
...known forms of animal life are found in the sea, which they expect to yield a proportionately rich harvest of medically useful chemicals. Dr. Paul R. Burkholder, famed for his discovery of chloramphenicol* (in a Venezuelan soil mold) more than 20 years ago, prodded the pharmaceutical industry to speed up its testing of sea-spawned compounds that show antibiotic promise, a number of which he himself has isolated...
...many other ways, the youth of Bethel displayed adherence to the prevailing spirit of the hippie movement. It is true enough that the manifestation of flower power in Haight-Ashbury and the East Village became a bad scene of gang rapes, deaths from malnutrition and too much speed. It is equally true that most of those at Bethel were not hippies in the commonly accepted sense: a good half of them, at least, were high school or college students from middle-class homes. But at Bethel thev exhibited to the world many of the hippie values and life styles, from...
...simply to hit the ball as far as possible. Young McGraw was brash enough and bright enough to see that the game should be infinitely more complex than that, and soon he was all but running the team. By 1894, Oriole baseball flourished as "a. combination of hostility, imagination, speed and piracy...