Word: spotting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson is seeded second in the 10-team field and must hold that spot in order to gain a berth to the NCAA Champioship tourney, held May 19-21 in Santa Barbara, Calif...
Change breezed through his match, 6-3, 6-3, at the number-four singles spot. Freshman Mike Shyjan and sophomore Ravi Kumar also took their matches at second and fifth singles, respectively. Sophomore Leon Palandjian dropped his match at number-six singles...
...bright spot for the U.S. is that several companies, large and small, hope to enter the field. Among the contenders is IBM, which in late 1987 formed a venture with former Cray designer Steve Chen to develop a line of advanced supercomputers. Allan Weis, a vice president in IBM's Data Systems division, asserts, "We're very serious about the supercomputer market. The Japanese are formidable competitors, but IBM and Cray are very formidable too." They had better be, or the supercomputer could go the way of the videocassette recorder...
...still take pride in the passion they have for their history. In Lyons, Jacques Tournier, the descendant of a water carrier who was guillotined in 1793, recalls that his grandmother refused to walk past the place in the market where the execution machine stood. "Now I too avoid that spot out of respect for my ancestors," Tournier says. Jacques Delmas, a lawyer from Reims, has fonder feelings for the revolution. "One of my ancestors stormed the Bastille," he says, "and I feel both thrilled and proud to be French whenever I walk past the place where it once stood...
...Volvo station wagons are all created on graphics workstations. Volvo even uses a satellite hookup to connect its design computers in California with its manufacturing computers in Gothenburg, Sweden. If a new model does not leave sufficient headroom to accommodate the average American driver, the computer in Gothenburg can spot the oversight before the car gets built...