Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were blown up anti government bombers in the late 1970s. A company near San Francisco lost $100,000 last year when a vengeful employee stole its data tiles, retreated into the Northern California hills and threatened to destroy the data unless the ransom was paid. For the enormous high tech community in Boston both internal and external security looms as one of their most several problems...
...strong youth support was reflected at Kerry headquarters, where over half the supporters appeared to be in their teens and twenties and the band played a selection of upbeat rock and country music in the high-tech ballroom...
...counter commercial decline, government officials have turned to the NSF to push universities, research institutions and businesses to return us to glory days of high tech superiority. In particular, they are goading the NSI to clean up its outmoded methods of management and emphasis on short-term profits, and turn instead to a revitalized long term planning agenda. And to top it off, they are driving the NSF to somehow beef up its engineering research programs...
...most significant recent move has been the appointment of Erich Bloch, a former IBM director who is widely regarded as a pure high tech promoter and a leading engineering manager. He has taken the initial step of fashioning a new policy and managerial strategy to make the NSI both a basic research and a technology foundation...
While the Reagan Administration has been struggling for more than three years to deny advanced computer technology to the Soviet Union, two French authors are now suggesting fancifully how the U.S. might turn the Soviet appetite for Western computers to its own advantage. Softwar, a high-tech thriller by Thierry Breton, a Parisian computer programmer, and Denis Beneich, a New York City-based freelance writer, explores what could happen if Washington, instead of blocking high-technology sales, used them for infiltration and sabotage. With nearly 100,000 copies in print, Softwar has become a bestseller in France. The book...