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...magazines often contain delightful hyperbole, the essence of pro sports. In a discussion of the Seattle Seahawks chances Pro Quarterback writes, "Every now and then in sports a complete unknown comes out of nowhere to explode on the public awareness with quantum force. In baseball in recent years, it's been Fernando Valenzuela, the sensational lefthander who pitched the Dodgers to a World Title in his rookie year. In hockey, it's 21-year-old Wayne Gretzky, who is re-writing the NHL scoring record book for the Edmonton Oilers. In pro football, the Scattle Scahawks have then fingers crossed...
...first computers, even those built with transistors, were put together like early radios, with tangles of wires connecting each component. But soon electronics manufacturers realized that the wiring could be "printed" directly on a board, eliminating much of the hand-wiring. Then came another quantum leap into the miniworld. In the late 1950s, Texas Instruments' Jack Kilby and Fairchild Semiconductor's Robert Noyce (one of eight defectors from Shockley's firm whom he scathingly called the "traitorous eight") had the same brainstorm. Almost simultaneously, they realized that any number of transistors could be etched directly...
...project is financially "a quantum leap beyond anything we've done in the past," Pallotta said. The group previously raised about $6000 a year sponsoring fasts in House dining halls...
Negative advertising took a quantum leap in 1980, when a number of conservative groups successfully targeted liberal candidates, mostly Democrats, for defeat. This year no side has a monopoly on the practice, and the victims are hitting back. In Pennsylvania, Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Allen Ertel implied on the campaign trail that Republican Governor Richard Thornburgh bore part of the blame for a shooting spree by a deranged prison guard who killed 13 last month in Wilkes-Barre. In retaliation, Thornburgh put ads on television charging that his challenger was "silent" when white policemen in Harrisburg began selling Ku Klux Klan...
...this end, the symposium considered a yearlong study by a four-man M.I.T. committee chaired by M.I.T. Professor of Engineering Robert M. Fano. The committee's conclusion: "The problems we are facing cannot be solved simply by incrementally improving and expanding current educational programs. A quantum jump is needed, amounting to a revolution in engineering education." The committee proposed a new alliance between industry and academe under which, on company time and at company expense, engineers would continue their graduate-level education in at least one 15-week course per year. Universities should adopt residency requirements flexible enough...