Word: high-tech
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...Reagan Administration, suggests that the U.S. can do a better job of stimulating American sales in foreign markets. It is fine, for example, that the U.S. is now pressuring Japan to accept more beef and citrus products. But the Government could focus more attention on ensuring fair trade in high-tech industries that have greater strategic importance to the U.S. economy...
...issues have such visceral appeal to workers as the plant-closing provision. Mike Dukakis, with his promotion of high-tech growth and labor management cooperation, has had some trouble convincing blue-collar voters that he can represent their interests. His declaration of support for the plant closing measure should go far in reasserting the Democrats' former hold on the blue-collar vote. Dukakis' support of the plant closing measure would serve notice that he represents the party of compassion, and Bush the party of privilege...
Several industrial agreements have been signed since November. In the first of these ventures, Connecticut-based Combustion Engineering will provide machinery and software for managing petroleum production at refineries. Minnesota's Honeywell will equip Soviet fertilizer plants with high-tech manufacturing equipment. Occidental Petroleum will build two factories to supply plastics for food packaging, vinyl floors and other uses. Chevron is * discussing an oil-exploration venture, while Monsanto is negotiating joint production of a weed-killing herbicide...
...soldiers: SNECMA's chairman Rene Ravaud, a crusty, one-armed hero of the French Resistance, and GE's chief enginemaker Gerhard Neumann, who had served as ground-crew chief for the Flying Tigers in China. Each company brought a key ingredient to the partnership: GE shared its high-tech engine core, while the French firm contributed financing from its government. Yet, says Jean Bilien, head of the partnership's marketing company, "for nearly five years we had an engine but no buyer." The partners won their first contract just when the French government was on the verge of withdrawing...
...diagnose the condition, some dentists are now relying on sophisticated equipment, which includes ultrasound to measure the "noise" of the joint, as well as devices that record muscle electrical activity and track jaw motion. Other practitioners believe much of the high-tech, high-cost gadgetry is unnecessary. No matter how the diagnosis is made, experts usually favor a conservative treatment regimen that includes a switch to a softer diet (no steak or chewy candy, for example); application of warm, moist heat; facial massages; and exercises to stretch tight muscles. Aspirin, muscle relaxants, tranquilizers and antidepressants may be prescribed. Counseling...