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Another challenge came from California's Silicon Valley, where the microprocessor, or computer-on-a-chip, was developed. The tiny devices packed thousands of circuits onto a postage-stamp-size silicon chip and gave rise to the microcomputer. Apple recognized the potentially vast appeal of personal computing, and its sales jumped from less than $1 million to $582 million between...
...events before December 1981," the Pope continued in a typically euphemistic reference to the Solidarity era, reflected the need to restore moral order and bore "the stamp of religion." Quoting from his 1981 encyclical Laborem exercens (On Human Work), the Pope reaffirmed the church's commitment to free trade unions. Then he said: "It was in this spirit that I spoke in January 1981, during an audience granted to the delegation of Solidarity...
...course, is the time for her to act. Her opponents have been vanquished and the new Parliament will be a rubber stamp for her proposals, but whether Thatcher has the guts to legislate her promised program is yet undetermined...
Some of the most imaginative experiments bear a youthful stamp. Caltech students are growing radishes. West German students sent along five tests, ranging from studies of plant behavior to the activities of chemical catalysts. And from inner-city high school students in Camden, N.J., there is a colony of carpenter ants, presumably tightly sealed, whose weightless antics will be carefully filmed...
...Prime Minister William Whitelaw over to the House of Lords. All told, she made more than 60 changes in her government, including twelve in her 21-member Cabinet. Thatcher assured the wary that the ideological balance had not shifted to the right, but the new government certainly bore her stamp. Pym and Whitelaw, for example, were replaced by Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe and his deputy Leon Brittan, both devoted Thatcherites. Nigel Lawson, who proved abrasive but loyal as Secretary of Energy, took over at Treasury...