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While the master planners have L.A. sprawling off obediently to the desert, the metropolitan economy is supposed to be juiced up by more high-tech industry and a new era of trade with Asia and Latin America. "The growth in the Pacific rim has just begun," says Planner Mark Pisano. "It's going to take off like an exponential curve in two to four decades...
...Mexico or Australia. The movie and TV business is only the hot tip of L.A.'s biggest job sector, its service industries, which together employ 882,000 people. There is a muscular side as well, with 869,000 workers in manufacturing, about a third in aerospace and other clean, high-tech industries. But parts of the city could pass for Buffalo. On the waterfront in Long Beach sit stacks of blue and orange cargo containers. In Lynwood, railroad tracks run past auto salvagers, truck-winch manufacturers, scrap-metal piles...
...most successful black mayors have created strong alliances with the white business establishments in their cities. Morial worked closely with the Chamber of Commerce to attract high-tech companies to New Orleans. Andrew Young was opposed by Atlanta's business community when he ran, but after his election he wooed its leaders over lunch, telling them, "I can't run the city without...
Discussions among computer makers tend to be high-tech talk tinged with evangelism. This year portable computers were gospel. As many as 40 companies have introduced portables that range in size from relatively bulky 30-pounders to lap-size models that weigh about...
...memories of Saturday Night Fever suggest, Badham can be more than a high-tech hardware merchant. The first portions of WarGames are nearly irresistible. The reason that the mighty WOPR comes across as funny is that David, a bright high school lad (played by a very savvy young actor, Matthew Broderick, 21), accidentally makes contact with it while fooling around with his home computer. Boy and machine get to be friends, since they are both lonely and misunderstood. David is shy and sweet with his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy) but is wary of his parents and is a troublemaker in school...