Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Driving all this is the microchip. The high-tech industry, which accounted for less than 10% of America's growth in 1990, accounts for 30% today. Every week a Silicon Valley company goes public. It's an industry that pays good wages and makes both skilled and unskilled workers more efficient. Its products cost less each year and help reduce the prices in other industries. That, along with the global competition that computers and networks facilitate, helps keep inflation down...
Intel has ceased being just a Silicon Valley wonder. It has 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...
...about Hunt. Yes, she's now a big star, winner of Emmy, Golden Globe and MTV Movie awards. But on the evidence, she is also a caring, clever person who loves her folks and her shaggy Samoyed dog Johnny, belongs to no cult, lives in the unchic San Fernando Valley, drives a boring black Volvo sedan, loves opera, listens to the dictates of her conscience, hears the ticking of her biological clock, protects her privacy as you would if you were famous and shrugs off her exhausting TV-and-movie workload--she made As Good As It Gets...
...soloists are without exception strong, lovely vocalists, neither too delicate nor too overwhelming for the choral and orchestral accompaniment. Bauwens is particularly notable for his elegant, tasteful use of flourishes. His "Ev'ry valley shall be exalted" aria was very beautiful, lilting, and full of little trills and decorations. The tenor part, though too often sadly neglected in the "Christmas section" of Part I, has some of the loveliest music in Messiah, and Bauwens proves himself wholly equal to it. His Part II recitatives, "All they that see Him laugh Him to scorn" and "Thy rebuke hath broken His heart...
...named because high yields signal out-of-favor stocks--"have become too popular and the market has become too high" for the gambit to keep working. O'Higgins is now writing another book and next month will launch a mutual fund on a different scheme through Valley Forge Funds (888-600-4537). This one has him 100% in bonds...