Word: ultra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plaster all over themselves. Both chemicals have been reformulated so that they no longer leave a residue. But some people find that these sunblocks clog their pores or feel sticky on their skin, so they may prefer one of the new products with Parsol 1789, like Ombrelle, PreSun Ultra or Shade UVA Guard...
...that machine! My kids might inadvertently delete them, or worse, read them! A quick check determined that my private correspondence weighed in at 80 megabytes. The usual high-density floppy discs, standard 1.44-MB diskettes, were useless--it would take 60 of them to copy my stuff. I needed...ultra-high-density floppies...
There is no such generic term (yet) for the storage medium that's quickly replacing the standard floppy. Instead, each of the competitors in this booming market is selling its own thing: ultra-high-density floppies by many other names. You've probably heard of the Zip drive, for instance, the purple-hued peripheral from Iomega that reads and writes to 100-meg removable discs. Lots of people use Zips at my office. So, a few months ago, instead of doing a lick of research, I bolted out to the nearest Staples and picked up a Zip drive...
...market for ultra-high-density floppy drives is doubling every year, according to Bob Amatruda, a senior analyst at International Data Corp. That's partly thanks to the hordes of folks who are buying sub-$1,000 PCs that come with teensy hard drives. Likewise, as more people download games, music and video from the Web, they're fast running out of room. Some 7.8 million ultra-high-density floppy drives will sell in 1998, IDC predicts...
...pediatric anesthesiologist involved in the case of a 10-month-old boy addicted to methadone whose story was the basis for an E.R. episode. I feel you missed a major point in your report. While ultra-rapid detoxification may give false hope to some patients, drug addiction in infants and young children is different from that in adults. Ultra-rapid detoxification in selected infants and young children can free them from the effects of a dangerous drug addiction imposed on them by their mother. The baby in the case I handled was detoxified without incident in the intensive-care unit...