Word: fiber
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whales, to end the testing of cosmetics on animals, to help the homeless help themselves. As part of their new Trade Not Aid project, they search the world for indigenous people willing to squeeze oil from Brazil nuts, make paper from water hyacinths, weave back scrubbers out of cactus fiber -- anything that could provide the natives with income and the Body Shop with sales...
...MANY WAYS CAN YOU TAKE IN THE TUBE? Between broadcast television, cable TV, fiber-optic cable, digital compressed cable and variously sized satellite dishes, there may soon be as many delivery systems as there are channels to choose from. Now the FCC has added yet another wrinkle to videotic variety, tentatively approving a nationwide television-transmission system much like the one used to send and receive cellular phone calls...
...channels by early 1994. TCI's announcement represents the first major consumer application of compressed-digital TV, which can squeeze 10 channels in the space currently occupied by only one. Not to be outdone, officials at rival Time Warner point out that by applying the same technology to the fiber-optic lines in its Quantum system, the 150 channels it delivers to customers in Queens, New York, could multiply...
...content" than an Oldsmobile. The only policy that will benefit all Americans, Reich writes, is for Washington to "invest" in the two assets that won't leave the country: "human capital," such as education and job training; and physical infrastructure, from roads and bridges to high-speed railroads and fiber-optic communications. Such public investments, Reich argues, will encourage both U.S. and foreign firms to create jobs in America. How would Reich finance these expensive new investments? By raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans and cutting defense spending...
...Clinton Administration will go along with, and even accelerate, this change in emphasis. The President-elect has repeatedly pledged to direct government support to such practical fields as fiber-optic communications, computer networking, biotechnology, robotics and magnetic-levitation train transportation. Vice President Gore will probably be in charge of coordinating federal efforts to spur technology...