Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Protests over nuclear weapons production and chemical warfare research in the City of Cambridge brought national media attention to New England's hi-tech capital. In September, 47 non-violent demonstrators were arrested by Cambridge police for trespassing at Charles Stark Draper Laboratories near MIT. Draper Lab is one of the Department of Defense's largest producers of missile guidance systems in the nation...
...neither green-haired mimes nor 6-ft.-tall strolling Care Bears could lure visitors outside. The weather also diminished opportunities for the festival's oldest and most assiduously recorded sideshow: the ritual display of starlet flesh. Young women desiring to disrobe in public were forced to go high tech. Isabelle Solar, chief ornament of the French soft-core epic Joan, could be seen on the closed-circuit hotel TV network slipping into a steamy bubble bath. In other respects, Cannes voyeurism may be entering the Workout '80s. The town summoned its largest turnout of gawkers for a midnight chorus line...
Lewis will stay on as General Dynamics chairman until perhaps the end of the year to ensure a smooth management transition. His successor will not come from within the company, but is an outsider, Stanley C. Pace, 63, a West Pointer and currently vice chairman of TRW, a high-tech conglomerate based in Cleveland. Pace had been thinking of retirement, but decided instead to take on the tough General Dynamics assignment. Why stay in the fray? "That's a good question," Pace said at a news conference. "My wife asked me that." Lewis approached Pace to be his successor...
President Reagan is quite right. Everything you give the Soviet Union, they use for military purposes. The West should cease all forms of technology transfer to the Soviets, not just high tech. Comrade Gorbachev is a realistic man. I am sure that putting himself into Reagan's shoes, he's saying to himself, "What bloody fools these Americans have been in taking so long to plug this hole...
...indicted Richard Kelly Smyth, a California electrical engineer, on charges of illegally shipping 8,100 Krytrons to Israel without a required Government export license. The case is the result of a two-year U.S. Customs Service investigation called Operation Exodus, designed to stop the flow of military and high-tech equipment from the U.S. Smyth, 55, the owner of a small electronics consulting firm in Huntington Beach, is also charged with lying to authorities by falsely labeling the Krytrons "G-Dest," a term for general-destination, no-license- required goods, or "pentodes," which are used as voltage amplifiers. The Krytrons...