Word: fields
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...even as the company's competitors multiply, new and enticing opportunities for A T & T are proliferating elsewhere. The most promising field is microcomputer electronics-that arcane world where the telephone meets the computer...
...left a message for Dick Moe. It read: "How 'bout Dominique's [a French restaurant near the White House]?" Like any seasoned political reporter, Wilkie was philosophic about his batting average. "We're like Mark Belanger [the Baltimore Orioles' sure-handed shortstop]," he said. "Good field...
...become a national concern over the technology's possible dangers in creating new life forms. Among the most pregnant research areas taken up at this year's Gordon conferences: the structure and function of "endogenous opiates," pain-killing chemicals produced by the body itself, and the new field of bioelectrochemistry that is beginning to draw attention with the recent discovery that electric currents sometimes help knit stubborn bone fractures...
...even during seven bloody years of civil war. The tough, radical Tekere, 43, had spent his entire adult life-including 15 years in prison or exile-in the struggle to bring black majority rule to his native Zimbabwe, but his role was never that of a fighter in the field. Rather, he was an exclusively political operator who specialized in recruiting, motivating and directing from a desk the tactical planning of the freedom struggle. To this day, some of his comrades say that he would have been happier as a front-line commander. This underlying frustration, as they...
Rounding out the field is New Yorker Russell Long, 24, son of Sumner , ("Huey") Long, a well-known shipping broker and ocean racer. The blond, blue-eyed Russell was crewing by age seven, but it was not until last year that he skippered a twelve, Turner's old Independence. Convinced that he could be competitive himself if only his boat were a little faster, Long raised $500,000 and stripped Independence for parts. The result: the deep blue Clipper and a helmsman brash enough to be Turner's son. "Ted peaked out in 1977," says Long...