Word: unheard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gandhi had been lucky in his adversary, for the British, though they imprisoned him, did not silence him. His message spread to the Indian masses and abroad, to touch the world's conscience. How many similar brave defiances, unheard, unchronicled, have taken place in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union itself the world will never know. But sometimes the protests of entire nations do get heard. Revolts and mass demonstrations broke out in East Germany in 1953, in Poland and Hungary in 1956, in Czechoslovakia in 1968, and in Poland again in 1981. Each was crushed. Hungary...
...craftsmen here enjoy the challenge of new technologies as much as their own crafts," explains Maki. "So do contractors, who are mostly graduates of architecture school. They'd rather lose money on a job than their reputation. Lawsuits are unheard...
...practices in Japan's Electrotechnical Laboratory, he walked off the job for two weeks. Such rash assertions of personality are rare in Japan, and Fuchi's individualism has captured the admiration of many of his peers. Stanford Computer Science Professor Edward Feigenbaum calls Fuchi "a type almost unheard of in the East, one of those who, by force of will, can make something happen out of nothing...
...best is 9.96 sec., .01 off Jim Hines' world mark). The University of Houston senior shrugged off his Indianapolis performances. "I don't worry about times and records. I'm my own competition," he said. "And I think there are going to be some absolutely unheard-of things coming from...
...match Commodore. Increasingly, software companies are discovering the advantages of bigness. In June 1981, Atlanta-based Peachtree Software sold out to Management Science America, a company that had previously concentrated on programs for mainframe computers, for $5.5 million. The new owners invested in television advertising, which was practically unheard of in the industry, and heavily promoted the Peachtree logo. Says John Imlay, 46, chairman of MSA: "The key thing is that we poured a great deal of money into brand recognition." Peachtree's sales took off, in part, because the software can run on the popular IBM personal computer...