Word: systemized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...some extent, the industry has made customers leery by engaging in esoteric debates over formats and components. Case in point: the controversy over an industry-wide computer "operating system." While the selection of this format is critically important to computer companies, customers tend to be confused by the endless discussions over the relative merits of such systems as OS/2 and UNIX. The same goes for the rivalry between the two fastest chips, the Intel 80486 and the Motorola 68040. "The industry is so busy talking inside baseball that it has forgotten the customers. They're thoroughly confused by all this...
...works by suppressing the proliferation of certain white blood cells, the workhorses of the immune system. Starzl thinks the drug could signal a revolution in organ transplantation. Moreover, it could possibly lead to a treatment for diseases, like arthritis, that are caused by an overactive immune system...
Greenspan provided far more than just verbal encouragement. To ensure that Wall Street had sufficient cash to buy stocks after the Friday the 13th sell- off, the Fed pumped $2 billion into the banking system Monday. Earlier, E. Gerald Corrigan, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, urged officials in Japan and West Germany to support the U.S. dollar to help restore confidence in American markets. "The U.S. had excellent crisis management this time," said Heiko Thieme, the Manhattan-based chief strategist for West Germany's Deutsche Bank...
This quake did not begin to exhaust the pent-up energy in the 800-mile-long San Andreas system. In a list of seismic danger zones compiled by an expert panel last year, the section around Santa Cruz ranked only sixth. The area believed most likely to have a devastating quake...
...pottery, is broken into 15 large pieces. These pieces of crust, called plates, restlessly roam about, driven by plumes of molten rock that roil up from the planet's superheated core. Many of the world's largest earthquakes occur at the boundaries of such plates. The San Andreas fault system divides the Pacific plate and the North American plate, which grind past each other at the pace of 2 in. a year. But this movement of the plates is not uniform. Along fault zones the plates tend to become "locked," resisting the overall motion. Explains Berkeley seismologist Robert Uhrhammer: "Stress...