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...Soviet Union, and adapted their methods in our own way." In particular, the Japanese developed a strategy of looking for "technological gaps"?advances that were not being fully exploited in the West. The oxygen steelmaking process, for example, was developed in Austria, but Nagano and his colleagues were quicker to appreciate its quality and cost-saving features than their Western rivals were. More than 80% of Japan's steel is now made in oxygen furnaces, the highest proportion in the world...
ALTHOUGH an avowed admirer of young people, "especially idealistic young people," Spock confessed that he was disappointed at how easily some of them give up. "They're much quicker to arrive at a radical analysis of things but then they shrug their shoulders and say 'oh I tried that and it didn't work,' " he said. "It drives me absolutely frantic," he added...
UMass coach Dick Garber feels his team has a different character this year. He says that his team is smaller physically than usual, but is quicker and more skillful. In the past, the Redmen have often been big, aggressive ex-football players...
...start Electra-Bar, a human assistant taps the right combination of keys on a cash-register-like machine. Drawing from one or more of eleven bottles, the machine can mix and pour 36 different drinks. It will also dispense straight shots. Electra-Bar is designed to be both quicker and more precise than a human barman. But the major inducement for spending $9,960 to buy the machine is that it enables a bar owner to keep an accurate eye on his profits. In a traditional saloon, dishonest or sloppy bartenders can cut heavily into the day's take...
...Getting in deeper to get out quicker [Feb. 15] sounds like the same old game: we continue to fight the Southeast Asian Hydra; we cut off one head and two grow in its place! Now a new one. And no Hercules in these parts to get the Hydra...