Word: whiz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Defense Secretary-designate Les Aspin, 54, is a former whiz kid from Robert McNamara's Pentagon. He earned a reputation on Capitol Hill as a Pentagon gadfly but is now one of Washington's wisest military hands...
Those who know him say he is an organizational whiz who glows with confidence and is able to get his way without making personal attacks. Known widely as "Mack," he has built an unusual degree of loyalty across political lines simply by being direct and honest. One of the few people in Clinton's inner circle with private business experience, McLarty ran his family's chain of Ford dealerships for 15 years and recalls the pain of making what he calls "better-bad choices," which included firing family members and close friends who didn't measure...
...launched nationally this week by Voice Powered Technology, eliminates button pushing almost entirely. Just bark commands into the microphone -- channel number, day, time -- and the machine does your bidding. A viewer can call out commands for a variety of other VCR functions as well, from "rewind" to "zap it" (whiz through the commercials...
...blocks of modern electronics. The fingernail-size chips of silicon power everything from video games and fax machines to washing machines and guided missiles. Japan and the U.S. are locked in a global struggle to control future generations of powerful chips that will form the basis of such gee-whiz products as pocket supercomputers, 3-D interactive televisions and wristwatch telephones. If the computer-chip revival here can be sustained, says Fred Zieber, president of Pathfinder Research, "you could see the return of the MADE IN THE U.S.A. label on TVs, VCRs and telephones...
WHILE MOST READERS HAVE BEEN LOOKing the other way, writer Eric Kraft has turned out a series of whiz-bang novellas about a kid named Peter Leroy who does a lot of neat stuff, like thinking, squidging for clams with his toes and noticing the fantastic legs of his new science teacher, Miss Rheingold. Now the out-of-print novellas have been published by Crown as LITTLE FOLLIES ($22) and Peter's new adventures as WHERE DO YOU STOP? ($15). Kraft misses endless opportunities to be poisonously cute about a smart boy who likes words (spline, ontology) and worries about...