Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Republican Ronald Reagan, despite a lopsided loss to Challenger George Bush in Michigan, won easily in Oregon and was by many counts already in control of more than half of the Republican convention delegates. Said he: "There is a smell of roses in the air. We'd better start planning for the convention and beyond...
...Wright's mercurial Mayor leads the American Rep actors in their flight from traditional-conversational exchange, alternating with precise control between an entirely non-verbal, vacuous moan and a galloping torrent of words tripping over each other in their eagerness to overwhelm the listener. He shouts "I'm not guilty" like an incantation to dispel the ills the world flings at him; his colleagues ponder their response to the supposed inspector-general's arrival with the cacophonous murmur of an elderly Orthodox Jewish congregation praying at different speeds. Richard Grusin's nasal, rotund Director of Welfare Institutions and Eric Elice...
Japan is quietly trying to displace the U.S., where integrated circuits were developed early in the 1960s, as the world's leading designer and producer of computer hardware. Already Japanese companies control nearly 25% of the world chip market. Japanese manufacturers have made serious inroads in the 16K RAM (for random access memory) chip, which is capable of containing 16,384 separate bits of information. Japanese producers now control 40% of that U.S. market...
...pushed revenues from $911 million in 1975 to $2.5 billion last year. Says Munro: "I think the company is going to have to be somewhat more structured and somewhat more disciplined. Instead of being highly growth-oriented, I expect our emphasis will be on distribution of available capital and control of that capital...
...that bacteria are able to ascend into the uterus via the threads that are attached to I.U.D.s to let women check on their proper position and make their removal easier. Another possibility: the I.U.D. somehow makes the uterus more hospitable, biochemically speaking, to invading bacteria. By contrast, birth control pills seem to have the opposite effect, suppressing infection...