Word: development
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said you want to be the education president. What have you done? The biggest menace to America's public school system is drugs. You appointed a "drug czar," William Bennett, but haven't given him the funding he needs to develop a successful program...
...bright spot for the U.S. is that several companies, large and small, hope to enter the field. Among the contenders is IBM, which in late 1987 formed a venture with former Cray designer Steve Chen to develop a line of advanced supercomputers. Allan Weis, a vice president in IBM's Data Systems division, asserts, "We're very serious about the supercomputer market. The Japanese are formidable competitors, but IBM and Cray are very formidable too." They had better be, or the supercomputer could go the way of the videocassette recorder...
Because of the large scale of these lifetime studies, they can be extremely expensive, said Colby. "[The grant] will allow us to develop further the archive of videotape data," she said...
American television manufacturers were the first to fall. Then Japanese firms rolled through markets ranging from autos to semiconductors. Now many Washington politicians fear that U.S. plans to develop the FSX fighter jet with Japan could give Tokyo a vital jump start in the aerospace industry, one of the few high-technology fields in which American companies still dominate. The growing outcry has transformed the proposed jet, an advanced version of the F-16, into a powerful symbol of the rising tensions between two countries that are close military and diplomatic allies but also archrivals for the economic leadership...
...technological edge represented by the plane's so-called source codes, which coordinate its electronic features. The doubters were joined by Secretary of Commerce Robert Mosbacher, who says he wanted to ensure that "this aviation technology, which has taken so many years of blood, sweat, tears and money to develop, did not instantly allow our biggest competitor to catch right up." After hearing the objections, Bush decided to reopen the agreement and press Japan for safeguards, including a clearer understanding of what the U.S. would gain from the project and the technological secrets it could withhold from the Japanese...