Word: treaded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...match the U.S. in expertise, long ago forced us to resign ourselves to the existence of high tech the existence of high-tech thievery. The crimes in the common opinion, were always committed in some miserable corner of Silicon Valley where only spies and the most devoted scientists dared tread. It follows then, that little more than a shrug or raised eyebrow followed the revelation that a Japanese company had undeniably cornered a future market with a product initially developed at Harvard Medical School...
...directly into the job market, is bound to be in an awkward position. He is more likely to sell his limited marketable skills to the first bidder rather than trying creatively to apply his training in innovative ways. No one has apparently tried to gauge the implications of this tread. OCS-OCL has expanded and enhanced its services in response to the growing impulse for immediate employment, but this alone is insufficient--it is a salve, not a cure. The College now does a better job of plugging seniors into set slots; it has not yet examined whether shaping freshmen...
...window. "We feel like vultures," said Curator Ronald Craw ford Brister. "People hate to see us coming." He noted that when the Firestone plant closed earlier this year, he had had to drop by and pick up the first tire produced there, in 1937, as well as the last tread off the assembly line...
...phone service in all states except Alaska and Hawaii, which have independent firms. But the 22 will be stitched together into huge new holding companies that are roughly equal in numbers of telephones and potential revenues. The holding companies, with small staffs at the top, will be free to tread where no phone company has ever gone, into almost any nonregulated business, except manufacturing telephones or certain kinds of information processing. Some have chosen to use the Bell name and logo, a privilege that Greene denied the parent AT&T, while others have attempted to get away from the dowdy...
Directors who make movies that are "ripped from today's headlines" must tread a narrow, tortuous path. Pay attention to all the political ambiguities and you risk putting your audience to sleep; turn history into histrionics and you anger everyone with a special interest. It is to the credit of Hong Kong's Ann Hui, the 36-year-old director of Boat People, that she has chosen the latter course. Her film is not a meticulous precis of Vietnamese politics; it is a fast-paced, humanist melodrama centering on one family that, in the chaos of reconstruction that...