Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speaker is never identified, but his words have moved Israeli readers ever since the appearance in 1949 of a novella called The Tale of Hirbet Hiza. The story, by now an Israeli classic, deals with the cruel behavior of a Haganah unit ordered to drive Arab inhabitants out of their village in Palestine during the war of independence. Written by Yizhar Smilansky under the pen name S. Yizhar, the story focuses on a young soldier's wrenching self-doubt as he obeys the brutal command to clean out Hirbet Hiza...
Pondering the difficulty, Hoff was suddenly struck by a novel idea. Why not place most of the calculator's arithmetic and logic circuitry on one chip of silicon, leaving mainly input-output and programming units on separate chips? It was a daring conceptual move. After wrestling with the design, Hoff and his associates at Intel finally concentrated nearly all the elements of a central processing unit (CPU), the computer's electronic heart and soul, on a single silicon chip...
...Williams game was a good warm-up for the Ivies. We played as a unit, and it will be just this kind of play which we will need next week in the tournament," Greis commented yesterday...
...nice having almost everyone back. As a unit we emanate confidence, and not so much individually," Purdy said...
...Father's," a chain of seven legal bars in the Boston area, faces possible legal action for failing to comply with an order by the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination to end its Ladies Night promotions, the unit supervisor of the commission said yesterday...