Word: hightech
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...Nicaraguan government. Brown still promises a $10,000 bounty, announced in 1979, for the return of Dictator Idi Amin to Uganda to stand trial. But that reward is peanuts compared with his latest offer: $1 million to any pilot who defects with an Mi-24 helicopter, the Soviet hightech chopper delivered to the Sandinistas last year...
Turning the Great Hall into a hightech dining hall necessitated expanding the north wing of Memorial Hall. In place of what had been classrooms, threelevels of kitchen and storage space and twoloading docks now occupy the side of the buildingclosest to Lowell Lecture Hall...
Hainsworth says he chose the Brecht play because he thought its "theatricality" would fill the large visual space which the Loeb provides. Only the mainstage provides the large space and hightech equipment necessary to create a Brechtian atmosphere of gloom...
...give a guy a simple exerqise on paper he'll often say: 'C'mon man, this is for third graders. I'm not doing that.' But if you give him an equivalent exercise on a computer, it somehow legitimizes it. He thinks 'It's a computer; it's hightech,'" Ryder says...
While it espouses free trade, the Administration already has granted requests for restrictions on such imports as motorcycles, cars and steel. Nor is it just older industries that are protesting. "Most hightech companies have been very hard hit," says C. Norman Winningstad, chairman of Floating Point Systems, an Oregon computer company. Allen Paulson, the chairman of Savannah's Gulfstream Aerospace, is blunt about the strong dollar's impact: "Somebody has to put an end to this insanity...