Word: 1990s
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...advanced aerial weaponry to swell their arsenals and boost military sales abroad. While thinking big, however, they often give little thought to the ultimate cost. India is investing up to $4 billion to build a lightweight fighter that will become the backbone of its air force in the late 1990s. Japan is debating whether to spend up to $10 billion on its proposed FSX fighter or buy comparable U.S. versions for as little as half the price. France continues to push ahead with its $5.8 billion Rafale fighter even though German, British and Italian companies are collaborating on a similar...
Even so, most analysts expect the number of U.S. robotmakers to keep shrinking through the mid-1990s. By that time robotics technology may have taken another impressive leap forward, with the U.S. once again expected to be the technological trailblazer. Advances now being explored in American universities and research laboratories could lead to the creation of machines capable of walking, improvising tasks and seeing (some robots can already do this crudely, through computerized video cameras). By then, the robots' masters may have learned how to exploit their wondrous inventions without falling into the kind of painful doldrums that now afflict...
...Teamsters are not likely to come under federal control until the 1990s, if then. The only precedent is a Teamster local in New Jersey with close ties to organized crime, which was placed under a federal trusteeship last year. That case took four years to resolve...
...graduating from college today may find themselves in a better position. They belong to the "baby-bust" generation, and their small numbers, says Harvard Economist David Bloom, will force employers to be creative in searching for labor. Child-care arrangements, he says, will be the "fringe benefits of the 1990s." The economics of the situation, if nothing else, will provoke a change in the attitude of business, just as the politics of the situation is changing the attitude of government. In order to attract the necessary women -- and men -- employers are going to have to help them find ways...
...lobbying group, individual customers leased nearly 2 million of the 11.4 million new cars delivered in the U.S., a record. That 17% market share compares with 12% ten years ago. Experts predict that personal leases could account for more than a third of new-car deals by the early 1990s...