Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...economy. In the late '70s, Japan's imitative wizardry and its mysterious cultural-economic consensus were the international model to copy. Today the model, the source of envy around the world, is the freewheeling private initiative of the U.S. Much of the improvisational magic, especially in the booming high-tech industries, comes from the yuppies...
Fortune proved kinder to Margaret Thatcher, who had just left her bathroom in a Brighton hotel when an I.R.A. bomb demolished four floors of the hotel and damaged the spot where she had been standing minutes before. Terrorism came of high-tech age that night; the explosives had apparently been planted under the floorboards weeks earlier and detonated by a microchip timer...
Kids, along with most everyone else, will love the clean design of the Apple IIc personal computer. A team from the frogdesign firm in Campbell, Calif., softened the high-tech computer image, used the air vents in a decorative pattern and gave the machine surprising elegance...
Learning to cope with high-tech risks...
CLOSE TO HOME, some have argued that the future of Massachusetts' businesses depended on the forced adoption of such measures. But such a move would be disastrous--skyrocketing taxes and other employment restrictions would force high-tech businesses to leave the area. With the competition between the East and the Southwest to attract profitable industry, the last thing we should do is to make Massachusetts less profitable. The Bay State lost much of its industry in the last decade to high taxes, but Governor Dukakis has worked hard to keep the remaining businesses and to attract new high-tech industry...