Word: high-tech
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...they bring nothing but what they can carry in two suitcases, they are rich in education, skill and ambition. Already there are enough doctors for a clinic on every corner, enough musicians for a string quartet in every apartment building and enough engineers and computer programmers for a booming, high-tech, export-oriented manufacturing sector on the order of Taiwan's or Singapore...
...represents a massive commitment to economic and social expansion. The roughly $9,000 that the government grants to Soviet families in the first year cannot sustain them for long, and without private and foreign investment there will be too few jobs for them to fill. SATEC, a Jerusalem-based high-tech firm founded to capitalize on the contributions of Soviet immigrants, employs 45 people and receives 1,200 resumes a year. "We're able to choose the best people because so many apply," says spokeswoman Sami Oberlander. "Many of those who work for us have family still looking for jobs...
...give their children a head start in life. They begin before the baby is even born. In hopes that sounds will somehow influence the fetus in their womb, zealous moms-to-be have attended classical concerts or kept tunes playing constantly at home. Now there is an updated, high-tech version of that technique: a contraption that delivers complex sonic patterns to unborn children, to excite the fetal nervous system and exercise the baby's brain...
...about the agency's lack of a backup system, as well as its overwhelming reliance on AT&T, which handles more than 90% of the FAA's communications traffic. The outage is expected to revive an FAA plan to spend as much as $1 billion on a more reliable, high-tech phone system. The project had been vetoed by the General Services Administration as too costly...
Murnane's explanation for the dramatic drop in earnings focused on structural changes in the economy. He said that today's high-tech manufacturing have de-emphasized the job skills of the traditional high school graduate...