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There is a measure of irony in the robot industry's plight. Although industrial robots account for only 2% of the $24 billion factory-automation business (such items as computers and other electronically controlled industrial machinery make up much of the rest), the mechanical menials have drastically altered many sectors of the American workplace. Robots perform more than 98% of the spot welding on Ford's highly successful Taurus and Sable cars. At Doehler-Jarvis, a major Ohio metal fabricator, robots load and unload die-casting machines, trim parts and ladle molten metal. At IBM factories across the country, robots...
American manufacturers were soon suffering as foreign-built electronic robots stormed the U.S. market. At Unimation, sales dropped from $70 million in 1983 -- the year Westinghouse bought the firm -- to $45 million in 1985, then to $38 million last year. Overall, Japanese robotmakers account for 28% of all sales in the U.S. Worldwide, Japanese sales exceed those of U.S. competitors...
...most prominent of Ollie's operatives was Richard Secord, the retired Air Force major general who had helped to create several private companies, including Lake Resources Inc., a Panamanian shell corporation with a Swiss bank account. Through Secord's companies, North was able to move Iranian arms money, buy planes, charter ships and perform myriad tasks that seemed beyond the abilities of the Government bureaucracies. Says Livingstone: "Ollie was in a white rage all the time over the help the CIA gave him." In a computer note to National Security Adviser John Poindexter, North wondered, "Why Dick can do something...
Viet Nam shaped North in lasting ways, and the account of his nighttime assault on North Viet Nam reveals some of the same traits and patterns that have put this much decorated war hero at the heart of the Iran-contra affair. For North, the U.S. defeat abroad and the revulsion with the war at home were searing, bitter experiences. Never again would something like that happen -- if he could help it. He was a man of action, frustrated by red tape, timid bureaucrats and waffling politicians. If you needed to get something done, do it yourself...
...uncharacteristically creative speech on Commencement Day, June 11, which has generated large public response, Bok presented a fictional account of a Harvard 50 years in the future with 20 branch campuses overseas and vastly increased foreign student representation. This address and another speech at Notre Dame, both of which touted American preeminence in higher education, said specifically that universities should encourage more study overseas and admit more foreign students...