Word: arrays
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...homecoming last week. The man who reigned as president of BankAmerica from 1970 until his retirement in 1981 was back, this time as chairman, in his old offices on the 40th floor of the company's San Francisco headquarters building. There he was confronted by an unfamiliar and sobering array of corporate and financial problems. Clausen, however, did not seem unduly worried. Said he: "We are going in the right direction. I'm here to accelerate the pace...
...week as the troops that defended the Alamo. The beleaguered electronics giant took out a two-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal that was intended to have the impact of a barrage of cannonballs. "Suddenly an era of explosive invention begins," proclaimed the company, as it touted an array of new technologies. This time the heroic struggle is over the manufacture of semiconductors, the tiny silicon chips that form the brains of virtually every advanced product from microwave ovens to mainframe computers. The attacker is Japan, whose aggressive electronics industry is on the verge of toppling...
Every autumn, the hills of Vermont turn into earth-toned peacocks, sporting a spectacular array of red, yellow and orange leaves. From afar, the hills look dappled, warm with a brown and purple and reddish hue. The closer you get, the more you see the outbursts of color...
That is the opinion of a broad array of scholars who said in interviews during the past two weeks that the Faculty of Arts and Sciences will see its strength fade in the years ahead unless the tenure process is made responsive to Dean A. Michael Spence's stated aim of increasing the rate of internal promotion...
...contracts are just one in a dizzying array of Deng's market-oriented economic reforms. In China's first bankruptcy auction last week, the government sold a factory in northeastern Liaoning province to a worker-owned unit of the Shenyang Gas Supply Co. The plant went out of business in August after Peking decided to stop propping up money-losing ventures. In another move, limited stock trading began in Shanghai in a test that could lead to the creation of China's first stock exchange since...