Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...outset of the tournament, the U.S. basketball women forced themselves into a habit of rising at 5:30. Pat Head Summitt, their quieter coach from Tennessee, complained drowsily, "I keep pouring coffee into my cereal." But the players, notably U.S.C. Star Cheryl Miller (6 ft. 3 in.) and Louisiana Tech Guard Kim Mulkey (5 ft. 4 in.), have looked more than alert. In the view of Australian Coach Brandan Flynn, the U.S. women's team is "by far the greatest ever." The Aussies were beaten...
Spunky, savvy and high tech, U.S. cyclists go into top gear...
...appears to be widening. In 1978 Western Europe had a $500 million trade surplus in such high-technology exports as computers, digital telecommunications systems, robotics and computer-controlled industrial machinery. Two years later the surplus had evaporated; in its stead was a $5 billion shortfall. By 1982 the high-tech trade deficit had doubled to $10 billion, with U.S. and Japanese exports to Western Europe growing rapidly. In the crucial field of electronic microprocessing, the industry on which much of this new revolution rests, Europeans hold only 10% of the world market. Together, the U.S. and Japan have...
...entertaining in itself, is too clearly just that. We're never left in doubt as to where Reve's psyche--however fevered--ends and reality begins, leading to a progression of events that is studied and deliberate; there are no tricks of perspective, no phantasmagory in Verhoeven's high-tech entertainment...
...their dress whites, and the medals are nice, but no one gets excited. The result, says McKinney, a small lean man, is that "we're a poor sport." The U.S.O.C. contributes $750 or so a year to each of its top archers, but bows are expensive high-tech affairs with elaborate stabilizers and sophisticated aiming sights, and $750 is the cost of one of them...