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Vocabulary Building Blocks: (38 Across) boycott (Noun) 1. A group's refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization in protest against its policies. (Verb) 1. Refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with. 2. Refuse to use or to buy. Derived from Captain Charles Boycott, 1832-1897, an Irish landlord's agent who was the first victim when his tenants refused to work the lands and shunned him both economically and socially in protest to oppressive rents.
Did You Know? (7 Down) The Toshiba Corporation developed the first one-megabit dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chip in the world. The
company, headquarted in Tokyo, was formed in 1939 from a merger of Shibaura
Seisakusho, a heavy electrical equipment manufacturer, and Tokyo Denki, which
produced consumer products. Toshiba was the first Japanese company to produce
radar, fluorescent lamps, microwave ovens, broadcasting equipment, and digital
computers, among other products.
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