Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Notwithstanding the potential profits, the industry has failed in one crucial respect--developing a safe method of producing these chips. It has been proven almost impossible to contain the arsenic gas used in the production of gallium arsenic. The industry has tried to conceal the stuff in silicon dioxide boats sealed in containers: unfortunately, no federal standards exist for either the boat or the container. Whereas the containers used to contain nuclear wastes go through vigorous testing before they are approved, the government does nothing of the sort for the gallium arsenic. Other types of safeguards are similarly unscrutinized...
What is this movie anyway? Only the first sci-fi western action adventure rock-'n'-roll melodrama farce. Only Star Wars, The Magnificent Seven, The War of the Worlds, The Right Stuff, Strange Invaders, Eddie and the Cruisers and Plan 9 from Outer Space mixed and mismatched as if by a mad scientist in his Late Show lab. And its Japanese-American hero? He is only the avatar of Han Solo, A. J. Foyt, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Christiaan Barnard, Bruce Lee and Bruce Springsteen. A state-of-the-art spaceship flying at the speed of light without narrative...
...Cutter's lay heavy upon the air. Now and again someone would thwack a thigh and a mosquito would perish. Periodically, Layton would clap his hands three times sharply and stop the work: "People, make it your own-even though I am giving you all this picky stuff...
Both the White House and the Pentagon assailed the subcommittee report, which Presidential Spokesman Larry Speakes said was "rehashing a lot of old stuff." At a press conference, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger conceded that he could not fault most of the report's facts, but charged that its conclusions contained "potentially dangerous . . . misstatements." He said that his department had faced the problems listed in the report and he added that "we are vastly improved over what we were in 1980." The problem, Weinberger said, was that "we have a long way to go because we had a long period...
There is not an editor in the solar system who would doubt that Tom Wolfe, 53, has very good stuff when it comes to writing slam-bang journalism. But Wolfe's newest project, a novel titled The Bonfire of the Vanities, is another story. Or is it? Rolling Stone magazine has signed him, for a $250,000-plus paycheck, to write Vanities in 27 cliffhanging installments, in the venerable tradition of Dickens, Zola and Dostoyevsky. The real cliffhanger is how long Wolfe can keep tapping the muse without missing an issue. "Two-week deadlines are very rough," admits...