_"Walton, I can't make heads or tails of this gobbledygook." He tosseddown the sheet. "What's this all about?"
"What it means"--Tam spoke up--"is that Ikeda has targeted every emergingarea of semiconductor research. Everything. A clean sweep. If hesucceeds, sooner or later nobody else will even be able to make thereally advanced chips. A few more years and America joins the ThirdWorld."
Jack looked a little skeptical. Truthfully I found her extrapolationsomewhat fanciful myself. But then, who knew?
"Tam, how about showing Jack that other memo? You know the one."
She didn't say anything, just turned back and sorted through the stackof yellow pages till she had it. Out came Jack's glasses again.