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...later sold to General Motors, last November bagged a glittering international prize: a $1.5 billion, 10-year contract to overhaul and then manage the computer network of Inland Revenue, the British government's main tax-collecting agency. Again it was a case of American firms' specializing in a particular high-tech field. Other countries' firms may provide tough competition in making computer hardware and software, but nobody matches the Americans at the fine art of tying computers together into networks that do everything from running automated factories to sending out medical bills. On the Inland Revenue contract, for example...
There is another side to the overseas-success story. For all the triumphs of Compaq, Intel and other companies, Japan still dominates many high-tech fields. Its companies, for example, control 95% of the flat-screen-display market, a key area of computer technology, and Asian companies have pushed the U.S. out of the disk-drive business. At the same time, U.S. competitiveness has been vastly enhanced by a trend that could be reversed at a moment's notice -- the cheapening of the exchange value of the dollar, which lowers the price of American goods to foreign buyers. Says General...
...access to the same sources as everyone else, and we haven't managed to find the tomb. If he has any other information, he hasn't shared it." The latest unsuccessful attempt to locate the tomb took place between 1990 and 1992, when a Japanese team mounted an intensive high-tech search. "Maybe they didn't look thoroughly enough," Kravitz chuckles. Whatever Kravitz knows, he has persuaded the Mongolian government to give him exclusive rights to search for the tomb for the next five years. He plans to start as soon as he can raise the $5.5 million the expedition...
Despite the high-tech innovation, however, students interviewed yesterday said they see no great improvement...
Undergraduates accused one of the firms, All-Pro Moving and Storage Company, of stealing computers, stereos and other high-tech items...