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...million); a group who are often classified as functionally literate; they can read simple materials--but only at an elementary school level (about 25 million); and a group who are able to read elementary level materials, but who cannot cope with the more complex materials of an information high-tech society (about 50 million...
Thompson and Bert Gillman, owner of the Stock Pot, expressed basically the same opinion, saying that the high school, college, and graduate students they usually employ are "working in high-tech areas or are getting higher allowances...
...effort to alleviate a critical lack of shelf space, Tozzer Library recently aquired twelve high-tech shelves which hold twice as many books as conventional stacks...
...chips, which are used by the dozens in personal computers and by the hundreds in larger models. While this type of integrated circuit was developed in the U.S., Japanese companies have proved adept at efficiently turning them out in mass volumes. Part of the problem is a difference in high-tech corporate culture. Says Richard Skinner, president of Integrated Circuit Engineering, a Scottsdale, Ariz., semiconductor-research firm: "In the U.S., the real glamour jobs are in designing the chips. But in Japan the manufacturing guys are equal." Indeed, each time U.S. companies have developed a larger-capacity memory chip (first...
Many buyers of chips, however, complain that the Government is protecting one high-tech industry by raising costs for many others. The protests have even come from the European Community, which believes its computer makers could be hurt by rising semiconductor costs. At Silicon Graphics in Mountain View, Calif., the cost of producing a system containing 144 one-megabit memory chips has nearly doubled because the semiconductors have increased in price from $22 to $107. Says Jerry Sugar, president of Classic Technology, a computer-systems maker in San Jose: "I called Washington to protest. Higher chip prices are going...