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...Asia's top tourist destinations. Living and educational standards have expanded enormously: in 1965 only about 16,000 Thais were attending college; today the number is perhaps 300,000. Bangkok has matured into an overcrowded (pop. 8 million), traffic-choked city boasting chic restaurants, satellite and cable TV, fax machines and all the other appurtenances of a thoroughly modern metropolis...
What those wondrous years wrought, as Bartley tells it, was the unprecedented creation of 18 million new jobs and a rekindling of the American spirit. The decade saw unfettered entrepreneurs create a revolution in communication that turned personal computers, fax machines and cable TV into home and office staples. At the same time, venture capital boomed and new stock and bond offerings blossomed. Bartley even applauds changes that took place in America's eating habits. "Frozen yogurt became a diet staple," he enthuses, "with estimated sales increasing 300% between...
...board calls Gault and requests another copy of the letter. He transmits one by fax that same...
Walter B. Hewlett '66, the son of the co-founder of Hewlett-Packard Company and a former Dunster House resident, donated a computer system and a fax machine to the house for its new computer facility, said Barbara Williams, Hewlett Packard's Equipment Gift Coordinator...
Until Solidarity's legal status was restored in 1989 it flourished underground, supplied, nurtured and advised largely by the network established under the auspices of Reagan and John Paul II. Tons of equipment -- fax machines (the first in Poland), printing presses, transmitters, telephones, shortwave radios, video cameras, photocopiers, telex machines, computers, word processors -- were smuggled into Poland via channels established by priests and American agents and representatives of the AFL-CIO and European labor movements. Money for the banned union came from CIA funds, the National Endowment for Democracy, secret accounts in the Vatican and Western trade unions...