Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...region is Reagan's to lose. The most recent Darden poll showed Reagan with an enormous 26% regional lead. White Southerners tend to share his extreme hawkishness and his distaste for civil rights schemes like affirmative action. "I think Reagan can just sleep late," says John Havick, a Georgia Tech political scientist. "He's got these people...
...lean, silver-haired Mississippian, Diffrient, 55, has always disdained the merely stylish, devoting most of his professional life to accommodating what he calls the "human factor" in the tools and furnishings of our high-tech civilization. He started as a painter, but switched to industrial design while studying at the famed Cranbrook Academy of Art, near Detroit. During that time he apprenticed with Architect-Designer Eero Saarinen, making drawings and models for office chairs. He eventually won acclaim for his own chairs but is just as proud of the tractors, lift trucks and airplane interiors he helped create during...
THOUGH NO ONE likes to expand the bureaucracy, the best solution to the existing safety problems in high tech industry is to establish a new agency--one that would monitor solely computer and electronic firms. The narrow focus would enable such an agency to spend money researching the long-term effects of worker exposure to toxic chemicals. The agency could be empowered to prevent high tech companies from using potentially dangerous technology at will...
...benefits that accrue from having tight regulation over potentially dangerous technology or drugs far out-weigh the costs--simply by saving lives. The FDA's ban on pressurized aerosol mist in the 1960s significantly reduced the number of asthma deaths in the United States. A high tech regulatory agency would unquestionably produce similar benefits...
Many American politicians, intellectuals and businessmen are looking to high tech industries as the saviors of our nation's economy, and well they may. The microelectronics and computer revolutions promise an easier, more efficient, and more comfortable life for a majority of citizens in Massachusetts and elsewhere. But unless dramatic action is taken, for a small minority of workers, these revolutions are destined to exact a terrible price--a price that may often be irreversible...