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...hour of calisthenics and road work. "The whole thing has become deadly, deadly, deadly serious," says Australia II Executive Director Warren Jones. "We train like commandos." The eleven-man crew enjoys impressive backup support. As Australia II was maneuvering before the start of a race last week, its carbon fiber boom buckled, making a forfeit seem probable. But its tender came alongside, and within ten minutes a $9,000 aluminum boom was in place and the yacht was ready with time to spare...
...Japanese completely abandoning their old copycat tactics. One noteworthy case occurred with fiber optics, a rapidly expanding field in which glass fibers are used to transmit information in the form of laser light pulses. The Japanese breakthroughs came only after Corning Glass, a leader in fiber optics, made the mistake of applying for a Japanese patent. Since the patent process is open to public inspection, Japanese firms studied the U.S. company's approach as well as the subsequent work of Bell Labs, and then made their own innovative improvements. Japanese fiber optics are today as good...
...together." Says Boyle: "I'm a little tired of all those Japanese success stories. What we've done here shows you can have American success stories as well." As a sign of that success, the 100 Club has been phased in at Diamond's three other fiber-product plants in Mississippi, California and New York...
...dominate sidewalks and landscapes. But the long-term benefits apparently make the unwelcome wake-up calls and the drastic change in scenery more tolerable. Says Davis: "If the youth of America can not stand the noise of someone pounding a nail 100 feet away, the nation has lost its fiber...
...even as the lights are dimming in some old-line industries, technology is spawning boundless opportunities in such esoteric fields as microelectronics, lasers, fiber optics and genetic engineering. In six years Apple, a leading manufacturer of personal computers, has evolved from a two-man operation in a garage to a corporation employing more than 4,000 people. Last year it ranked 411 on the FORTUNE 500; no company had ever gone from a start-up to the Fortune list in so short a period...