Word: various
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...your activities in Florida should be getting one of your hearty compatriots intoxicated to the point of complete helplessness while on the beach, and then covering his or her face and chest with various lewd witticisms in sunblock. Party games like this coupled with the requisite amount of beer-guzzling and sun-worshipping, and you will have a dream vacation which will only cost your self respect, $300, and five-eighths of your functional grey matter...
DESCRIPTION: Percentage of U.S. patents issued to foreigners '67, '72, '77, '82, '87; Color: various products...
...follow-up citations an extraordinarily high number. Canon's patent for the optical disc, one form of which is the compact disc sold in record stores, was mentioned 56 times. An antibiotic developed by Takeda Chemical Industries earned more than 100 subsequent citations. Among recent advances, Hitachi has patented various processes for a higher-resolution TV, called IDTV, which produces a much sharper picture than conventional color TV. Some Japanese innovations, like floppy computer disks and Sony's Walkman, have already produced marked changes in the American life-style...
...many unknowns. Research is making it abundantly clear that people differ, often inexplicably, in their vulnerability to the virus and in their tendency to transmit it to others by various routes. An AIDS carrier's infectivity -- his or her ability to pass the virus on -- may vary over time. Only now are researchers beginning to understand these differences and their implications for preventing the spread of the disease...
...kill people." In his stump speeches, he sounds off about engineering fundamental change rather than "tinkering around the edges." Gore does have a feeling for how such forces could affect America's future. Yet at the moment, just as the campaign spotlight hits him, he is latching on to various populist code phrases that hardly do justice to the message he could convey...