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...least nine cases, All-Pro has not returned computers, stereos, and other high-tech items, while Alexander and Sons shut down following its owners arrest last week by Boston police on an outstanding warrant, police said...
...course, collegiate athletics back when Clark was hitting serves and diving for volleys may not have quite resembled today's high-tech, money-generating sports, and many coaches (including retiring football coach Joe Restic) assert that the way we play the games we play these days lacks the amateur spirit that Clark represents...
...there have been major setbacks too. The high-tech investments in Clinton's economic-stimulus package "had Gore's fingerprints all over them," says an Administration aide, but the package did not survive. And Gore's influence was not enough to save the BTU tax from sniping by Senators and from Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen's willingness to carve out exceptions to it until there was nothing left. Budget Director Leon Panetta recalls, "When it was dropped in committee, there was a moment when I followed the Vice President into his office. He said...
...boom to the energy bust of the mid-'80s, which forced companies to downsize and the states -- notoriously overreliant on natural resources ever since the silver rushes of the 1870s and 1880s -- to diversify. Idaho also continued to help small companies grow larger while encouraging the new high-tech industries around Boise. Wyoming revived its moribund coal fields with the world's most highly automated mining processes. Colorado financed an ambitious drive to make Denver an international hub with a new $3 billion airport. Utah restructured its copper and steel mills and absorbed their laid-off workers into gleaming...
...part, Utah went after new business with a one-stop-shopping regulatory agency and a program to steer youth toward high-tech jobs. (Utah claims its population is the most literate and youthful in the U.S.) It has a sophisticated state "center of excellence" that screens scientific and technological research projects with an eye to bringing the most promising to market. To convert miners into machinists, the state finances retraining programs both on campuses and at companies. State officials argue that it is no accident that McDonnell Douglas has laid off thousands of its workers in Long Beach, California; Mesa...