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...potentially lucrative equity stake in the company. Their base salary would be augmented by performance bonuses, a feature that could attract the type of highly motivated, career-oriented men and women who today tend to shun teaching in favor of better-paying professions. Whittle's application of free-market techniques to schooling is what most troubles his critics, who fear that the traditional interaction between teachers and students will get lost amid the high-tech gadgetry and the chase for profits...
Over the 18 years that Briefer ahs worked at Harvard, reunions have become a colossal, high-tech operation. When she first came here, she recalls, alumni checked in by signing ledgers. Now, registration is computerized...
...would make it even tougher to reduce the deficit than Bush's read-my-lips, no-tax pledge. Perot is entranced with the idea of electronic town meetings to divine the will of the people on complex issues like health care. Again and again, he comes back to this high-tech gimmick as a touchstone of a Perot presidency. "With interactive television every other week," he says, "we could take one major issue, go to the American people, cover it in great detail, have them respond, and show by congressional district what the people want...
...High-tech seamanship in the quest for America...
Corporations seeking relief from high big-city taxes also joined the rush, feeding the growth of hybrid suburb-cities like Virginia's Tysons Corner, Perimeter Center outside Atlanta, and the spanking new localities of the Route 128 corridor in Massachusetts. According to Joel Garreau, author of Edge City: Life on the New Frontier, by many standards of urban life these mostly low- rise population centers are already minicities. Most of the more than 200 suburban hybrids that he studied have more office space, shopping, entertainment, prestigious hotels, corporate headquarters -- even hospitals with high-tech CAT-scan machines -- than such conventional...