Word: containment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...addition to running different covers, these editions contain an enriched diet of world news, reporting not only on politics but also on business and back-of-the-book subjects from art to video. The international editions even have several sections of their own, including Traveler's Advisory, a breezy guide to special events throughout the world; Readings, a survey of important books published outside the U.S.; and Cultures, a chronicle of the idiosyncratic sensitivities and surprising similarities of societies around the world...
...companies currently account for only 10% of the world's production of the most advanced DRAM chip, the one megabit, which has enough memory to contain the equivalent of 100 pages of double-spaced text. The new venture, called U.S. Memories, plans to manufacture the next generation: the four- megabit chip. Last week IBM disclosed that it is already producing the more powerful semiconductor for use in its own computers and other products. That may give IBM a lead of several months over its Japanese rivals, who have yet to gear up mass production of the four-megabit semiconductor...
Some 93 million miles away, the sun was, at the very least, agitated. In early March, an area of sunspots large enough to contain 70 earth-size planets had come into view around the eastern rim* of the glowing orb. Created by intense magnetic fields and cooler than the surrounding gases, the sunspots were visible as dark blemishes on the fiery surface. Just as astronomers were turning their attention to the mottled region, a bright spot suddenly appeared in its midst. It spread like a prairie wildfire, glowing white hot on the sun's yellow face and quickly expanding...
...fumes from the spill wafted by the beach-front mansions in Newport, cleanup crews promptly deployed booms to contain as much of the spreading slick as possible. Robert L. Bendick, director of the state department of environmental management, reported that the disaster had attracted so many curiosity seekers that they were hampering cleanup efforts. The department ordered sightseers off the beaches until after the cleanup, and boaters were asked to stay at their docks...
...because Go-Video agreed to install circuitry that will prevent the VCR-2 from copying movies protected by antitheft coding. Still, moviemakers may see double for a while. Many of the films on store shelves, including hot new rentals like Coming to America and Crocodile Dundee II, do not contain the coding...