Word: developer
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...collapse raised fresh doubts about the ability of U.S. companies to challenge Japanese chipmakers, who often seem to act in concert. As U.S. Memories faltered, major Japanese firms made a series of production cuts to strengthen chip prices and geared up to develop advanced new products...
...automation is certain to become ever more pervasive. If U.S. firms do not develop the most advanced systems, Japanese or South Korean or European companies are sure to do so. "American industry faces an extremely competitive situation," says Tandem President James Treybig. "AT&T is fighting to be in the forefront of technology, and there is some cost to staying in front." If Treybig is right, temporary setbacks are just the price of progress. But incidents like last week's are sure to influence the priorities of technology shoppers: reliability will be just as important as clever ads and fancy...
Instead, we must continue doing research while, at the same time, begin preparing for a possibly catastrophic future. There's absolutely nothing wrong with an insurance policy against such major economic and ecological disasters. After all, if we pay a little now to develop alternative energy sources or recycle papers and metals, we are sure to save a lot later...
...trial marked a turning point in the history of the cold war. Evidence supplied in the confession led to the arrest of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for what J. Edgar Hoover termed "the crime of the century" and prompted President Harry Truman to launch an all-out program to develop the so-called Super Bomb. Two and a half years later, thanks to the determined efforts of Edward Teller and colleagues at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, the U.S. detonated the first thermonuclear device, beating the Soviets to the H-bomb by more than three years...
...rocket descending on London in the earlier novel to the cries of birds pilfering dog food in Vineland: um, as a Pynchon character might say, there seems to have been a little downscaling going on around here. The perception is accurate but also, as things develop, a trifle misleading. True, this time out Pynchon has not tried to top the apocalypse of Gravity's Rainbow. He has chosen a subject that may even cause some groaning (Oh, come on, man, grow up) among reviewers and fans: the attempts of some aging hippies to steer clear of the narcs...