Word: setting
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...hopes to grab a bigger chunk. Last week Big Blue introduced a top- of-the-line workstation series called the RISC System/6000. The new machines' advanced circuitry is based on IBM's own RISC (for reduced- instruction-set computer) technology, which simplifies a computer's processing steps to speed up its work. IBM's new workstations will execute between 25 million and 40 million instructions a second, 20% faster than some other brands...
...echo carried that far and beyond. Drexel's notorious junk bonds -- debt instruments that pay high rates of interest because of the relative shakiness of the ventures they fund -- turned the financial world topsy-turvy and helped set the tone for the money lust that gripped America in the '80s. Armed with the bonds, corporate raiders swiftly raised the money they needed to attack even the largest companies. At the same time, investment bankers raked in billions of dollars by advising the raiders and selling junk bonds to eager borrowers. In what corporate America saw as a glorified protection racket...
...salespeople, their earnings depend on the number of papers they can hawk. They buy copies for approximately 25 cents apiece, sell them for 75 cents and keep the difference. In addition, every paper sold earns the vendor an extra nickel that is deposited in a special savings account set aside for rent. So far, says Persons, 200 of the salespeople have saved enough money to secure cheap rooms or apartments...
...Israel," opined the Economist, "cannot in fairness test itself against a standard set by China and Algeria while still claiming to be part of the West." This argument, heard all the time, is a phony. Israel asks to be judged by the standard not of China and Algeria but of Britain and France, of Venezuela and India. By that standard, the standard of democracies facing similar disorders, Israel's behavior has been measured and restrained...
...anybody here play this game? The rules for morning TV have changed & little since they were invented by the Today show back in the 1950s. Put a perky, good-looking couple together on a homey set; mix in a potpourri of news, weather and feature segments; and keep it all going for two hours. Do it right, and you'll grab a sizable share of the audience that can't get through the pre-work hours without some TV chatter percolating in the background...