Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Gurdal and Trumbull consider the Tech match extremely important...
...should equip the future student's room with the capability to carry voice and video signals--from the highest tech room to the average dorm room--five years down the road," said Hall, citing cable as a means, to transmit audio, visual, textual and computer data information...
...Government's glossy brochure offers 19 different sites. There is the high-tech Xanadu in Fort Lauderdale, with poolside bar and five bathrooms with French bidets. Other bidders may prefer a six-bedroom oceanfront estate in Vero Beach, with orchid ballroom, hand-painted wood floors and swimming pool; the cunning security system permits leisurely monitored strolls across the seven-acre compound. The GSA, which placed discreet ads in major newspapers in the U.S. and abroad, has received inquiries from as far away as Europe and China. Says GSA Officer Howard DeVane: "They all know a good deal when they...
...operated with picture symbols. When and if they succeed, another milestone in nondiscrimination will have been passed--the literacy barrier. Try to ignore the preposterous image of an illiterate soldier poking his or her finger at a pretty, multicolored computer graphic to launch our country's most expensive high-tech armaments. Concentrate instead on the whole new class of desperately poor, conveniently patriotic citizens who could then be pronounced fit for service...
Maybe macho types actually do make better soldiers. Maybe military contractors have a vested interest in high-tech, user-friendly hardware. But it's by no means clear that the Army is "all that it can be." At the very least the U.S. military can make a more plausible pitch to the post-comic books...