Word: tells
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...become a weather vane for an entire digital economy, a complete ecosystem of drive manufacturers, software houses and Web programmers whose businesses depend on escalating PC growth. Because Grove and his firm control the blueprints of the PC, he is in the unique position of being able to tell customers what to do. Intel sets release dates for new chips, dictating the pace of the computer industry with the confident aplomb of fashion designers raising or lowering hemlines. It's the sort of ironfisted market grip that rarely exists outside economics textbooks: one superefficient firm with monopoly-like returns gliding...
Information goes either to a code cache, which stores the instructions that tell the processor what...
...health officials can tell, every patient with H5N1 flu was infected directly by a chicken or some other feathered creature. As long as the virus is being passed bird to person, rather than person to person, it is not likely to spread beyond a few isolated cases...
...assignment for Outside magazine would, it seemed, end in triumph. But the day did not. A storm arose that killed 11 other climbers. Krakauer's book dramatically reports this calamity and examines the proliferating, expensive tours that offer novices the top of the world. Some of them live to tell their tales...
...Citizen Soldiers (Simon & Schuster) Stephen Ambrose, author of Undaunted Courage, last year's best seller about Lewis and Clark, thought there were still some untold stories to tell about World War II in Europe, and he was right. His mixture of narrative and oral histories brings to unforgettable life the G.I.s who slogged through...