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According to most experts, the Soviets turned to the West largely to obtain cut-rate financing-in other words, a subsidy at the expense of Western European taxpayers-not because they needed foreign know-how. The Soviets already produce sophisticated aircraft turbines, which require expertise in high-temperature technology, aerodynamics and stress analysis. Says Victor de Biasi, editor of Connecticut-based Gas Turbine World magazine: "Anybody who can produce aircraft turbines of as high a caliber as the Soviets do can darn well produce turbines for use on earth." Indeed, French and West German companies last week were discussing...
...their short-sleeved shirts and wide ties, toting clipboards and pocket calculators, the Bechtel brigade seems the very can-do embodiment of American technological know-how. Its members also occasionally demonstrate a flair for improvisation that would do a World War II Navy Seabee proud. Earlier this year, 250 newly assembled Jubail modular housing units stood empty in the desert because some necessary plumbing fittings were missing. Two Bechtel employees promptly boarded a plane, flew 13,000 miles round trip to the U.S. and back and returned carrying several containers of faucets, nuts and washers as excess baggage...
...technologies." The Scripps company had already invested $10.5 million in a computer and communications center located in Dallas and in 500 video display terminals in U.P.I.'s 146 domestic and 60 foreign bureaus. Media News, said U.P.I. Director of Information William Adler, has "the know-how and the money to turn us around." Now it also has title to a cornucopia of highly marketable state-of-the-art publishing hardware that, some insiders point out, would sell swiftly and well in case the hoped-for turnaround fails to materialize...
...rarely lets that show in his movies. He kept fretting that E.T. was too soft, until finally he stopped worrying about pleasing the men in the audience." Spielberg sees his relationship to Mathison as symbiotic: "Melissa is 80% heart and 20% story logic. It took her sensitivity and my know-how to make E.T. Besides, I work better with women. I claim no profound understanding of women, but I have an agreeable faith in them...
...English pride being narrow-nosed, the American blustery; but the effect is equally irritating to anyone who deals with them. The English are famous for not adjusting to foreign places, but Americans don't do this either. Both countries are inventive. The English like to demean American know-how, but they are just as dazzled by ingenuity. They simply have an older world to cherish along with the new; thus they make an elaborate point of doing so. Both countries are class-ridden, though the U.S. says that this accusation applies only to Britain. Both are run by their...