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...emerging ones like robotics should be given Government assistance only in exchange for accepting industrial-policy coordination. Fading industries like steel, which are demanding protection from foreign competitors, might be given temporary relief from imports if managers and workers accepted pay cuts and more flexible work rules. Whenever high-tech firms receive Government help, Reich would like to see them match public funds for research ventures with their own spending and make commitments to keep R. and D. operations in the U.S. instead of locating them abroad...
Computers will be joined under the tree by many beeping and buzzing friends. The electronics industry expects sales to increase by almost 25% this year over 1982. Sales of video cassette recorders will grow by more than 100% this year, and microwave ovens by nearly 50%. The high-tech clinkers this year are video games. About $1 billion worth of cartridges and consoles are expected to be bought, a 50% drop from...
...Glad It's Leap Year? The Buzzword-a-Day calendar, written by the authors of The Official MBA Handbook, gets the year off to a ruthless start by defining deadwood as "Anyone in your company who is more senior than you are." The Computer Desk Diary marks high-tech anniversaries like the date of Apple Computer's founding (Jan. 3). Jane Fonda's Year of Fitness and Health datebook provides recipes and exercise tips that focus on a different part of the body each month (October is thin-thighs month). Some 235,000 copies have been shipped...
...antisatellite devices ready for deployment are really just high-tech shrapnel and bullets. The beam, or "directed-energy," weapons Reagan conjured in his speech last spring, on the other hand, would be truly novel. Theoretically, such weapons based in space could be used either to destroy satellites-perhaps by 1990-or to shoot down nuclear missiles...
...when the laser, or its high-tech cousins, seems able to protect one superpower against an ICBM strike, the tenuous equation will be upset. Neither the U.S. nor the Soviets could afford to let the other side become invulnerable; such a concession would be virtual surrender. Reagan said last spring that the U.S., if it did have space-based missile defenses, would never abuse the shield by launching an offensive first strike. But, concedes Major General John Storrie, an Air Force space official, "we walk a very narrow line in these matters between strategic defense and offense." The Soviets cannot...