Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less than the typical $20,000 $ cost. Meanwhile, industry giants IBM and Digital Equipment were trying to rev up interest in their latest models. All these competitors are trying to knock off Sun Microsystems, the clear leader in the workstation business. Launched only in 1982, the Mountain View, Calif., firm has become a billion-dollar company on the strength of the new machines...
...Green Mountain state was quiet for the first two-and-one-half periods of the game, when Roy (23 saves) dazzled the crowd with his deflections and silenced the Catamount offense...
...Allison saw it, she and the mountain settled some unfinished business. That was that. But hype has a life of its own, and she was rewarded on her return with her country's equivalent of a knighthood, an interview on David Letterman's late-night TV show. She is little, blond and cute, and probably could have carried Letterman on her back to the top of the Statue of Liberty. His questions were gingerly and puzzled. She, as it happened, had never seen Letterman's show, but friends had explained its tribal rituals. No 19th century explorer snacking on pickled...
High winds battered the mountain on the day of Luce's summit try, and she hung back, breaking off from Tabin, her climbing partner, and her summit group's Sherpas. Then Luce (no relation to TIME's co-founder) decided to try for the top. At some point her goggles fogged, so she took them off. By that time the men had passed her on their way down. She reached the top alone, dulled and sluggish, and stayed about five minutes, not bothering with photos. As she started down, she realized her unprotected eyes were going snow blind. What...
Luce has quit her messenger job. She and Carl Jones, a Seattle filmmaker, plan to pedal mountain bikes from Vladivostok to Leningrad, camping or sleeping in the houses of ordinary folk along the way, in a five-month tour starting in May. Four Americans and four Soviets will make the trip with cameras rolling, and then they will do a similar tour in the U.S. next year. The Soviets are enthusiastic, says Luce. Only one element is still uncertain. Right the first time. So it is back, with smile and mandolin, to the powerful- legs, powerful-suits scene. Back...