Word: speedup
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sweeping changes: decontrol prices, end huge state subsidies, expand the private sector, open a capital market with realistic interest rates. Soviet specialists call for something more elusive: effective leadership. Says Oleg Bogomolov, director of Moscow's Institute of Economics of the World Socialist System: "To sustain perestroika, a new speedup, more radical change, is required." Gorbachev, adds Ambartsumov, "talks too much and doesn't carry through his decisions...
...unlike the stay-at-homes, moviegoers who pay cash at the box office are captives, without a speedup button to zap the obnoxious spots. Many are starting to rebel, and hoots and howls are common when commercials flash onto screens in New York City, where ticket prices run as high...
...highway, a six-lane stretch of Interstate 93 that snakes through Boston's downtown section from the Massachusetts Turnpike to the Charles River, handles 180,000 automobiles a day -- nearly 2 1/2 times its stated capacity. The two-mile elevated section, built without any shoulders or slowdown and speedup lanes for exits and entrances, has an accident rate that is twice the average for urban highways in the U.S. Next year Massachusetts will begin a ten-year, $4.3 billion project to rebuild and reroute some seven miles of highway, including Central Artery. Construction will add four traffic lanes, enough...
...that divide their work among hundreds, even thousands of processors. Last week scientists at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque announced that they have coaxed a 1,024-processor computer into solving several problems more than 1,000 times as fast as a single-processor machine acting alone, an unprecedented speedup that suggests the performance of supercomputers may in the future be related almost directly to the number of processors they employ...
According to advocates of an SDI speedup, it might be possible in the mid- 1990s to orbit a space-based system of hundreds of satellites, called "garages," each capable of launching a dozen or so smart rocks that could strike Soviet missiles as they are launched. The system would also include ground-based smart rocks capable of striking warheads as they re-enter the atmosphere. Gerold Yonas, until recently the chief SDI scientist, says "even a modest deployment of this sort would run over $100 billion." By contrast, a full-fledged Star Wars system involving lasers and other futuristic technology...