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...surprises: Germans in the hill country, for example, still speaking in the accents that their forebears brought over in the 1840s. Says Robert Strauss, the Texan who is former chairman of the Democratic National Committee: "Texas is a montage of America. From the financial center of Dallas to the high-tech areas of Austin to the agricultural communities. It represents the sea and the mountains and the valleys, great wealth and pockets of poverty...
...million. So far the champion cash collector and the candidate with the most media sizzle is Zschau, 46, a former Stanford business professor and successful electronics entrepreneur (founder of System Industries, Inc.) who has earned broad respect after only two terms in Congress. At fund raisers across California, high-tech execs like Hewlett- Packard Co-Founder David Packard and other businessmen such as Reagan "Kitchen Cabinet" Member Armand Deutsch hail Zschau as "one of us" and provide a copious flow of campaign cash, expected to top $3 million...
From shopping malls to corporate computer centers, from fast-food joints to high-tech industrial plants, a common plea is popping up all across the U.S.: HELP WANTED. APPLY WITHIN. Suddenly America is running up against serious labor shortages that are crimping many businesses and forcing corporate headhunters to work overtime. As a result, says Richard Kappus, an analyst at the New York State department of labor, companies are having to "do more, spend more and bend over backward to attract workers." The shortages are most severe in low-paying service jobs and in many positions that require technical skills...
...along near the speed of sound in dead of night, at times under intense antiaircraft fire, how could pilots of the F-111 fighter bombers plant so many of their bombs on or near targets as small and discrete as a single building or a row of planes? By high-tech wizardry that makes a real-life bombing run seem almost as simple as a video game...
...dynamic emergence of George Mason University, ten miles across the Potomac from Washington, unblushingly describes his public university's mission. "We are entrepreneurial," he says, "responding to the needs of our community." That community is rich Fairfax County, Va., one of the nation's fast-growing areas, loaded with high-tech corporations employing professionals who demand continuing education. "We have CEOs who want doctorates in economics," says Johnson. "Their wives are considering going to law school...