Word: growths
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told, the computer industry is entering a shake-out phase, in which slowing growth will force some companies to restructure or combine with healthier partners. Instead of the robust annual sales growth of 15% to 20% that the industry enjoyed in the early 1980s, computer revenues will expand an estimated 6% to 8% during the next few years. That pace would delight most industrialists, but among computer makers it represents an abrupt comedown. Profits are being squeezed even more. Last week the world's No. 1 and No. 2 computer makers announced sharply lower earnings during the most recent quarter...
...fiscal 1990, the law required Congress to produce a budget with a deficit of less than $110 billion. Despite the Administration's optimistic forecasts of continued strong economic growth and lower interest rates plus some fiscal legerdemain, congressional efforts fell $6.1 billion short...
Though cameras were always pulled out for calamities -- the Johnstown flood, the San Francisco earthquake -- the subtler processes of the century left their mark on the glass plates too. The growth of industry, the very geometry of the industrial landscape were news. The diagonals of an iron truss or the plunging lines of a new bridge told of the spreading dominion of industry and technology in a way that words never could. Photography came along just in time to record the great expansion of empire by the colonial powers as they stretched toward the Pacific. When the U.S. moved westward...
...sooner had the camera been invented than it was turned toward the major events of the day: war, economic growth and global expansion...
...genes, or units of heredity, that cause cancer. Researchers had previously theorized that cancer genes were separate entities, unrelated to the healthy functioning of a cell. But in studies of a cancer-causing virus in chickens, Bishop and Varmus found that oncogenes were normal genes, vital to cell growth and development, that had somehow gone awry -- probably as a result of mutations induced by carcinogens such as cigarette smoke and radiation. The team thus helped explain the role of genetic damage in cancer development and established a common pathway by which all cancers seem to evolve. Observed Bishop: "We have...