Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ITALY. For all its own budget-deficit problems, the Italian economy is expanding much like its northern neighbors at a rate of 3% this year, according to Guido Carli, Former Governor of the Bank of Italy. Exports to the U.S., including such high-tech products as robots, are booming. Next year, growth may drop slightly to 2.6% if the U.S. economy slows as expected. Inflation will crackle along at about a 10% rate this year and next. Unemployment, now running at 9.5%, will near 10% in 1985, as industry continues to shed workers aggressively...
...always easy to know just what neoliberals stand for. Pragmatism is a sound approach to governance, but it is not a clarion call. Challenged to offer specific "new ideas," Hart would drone on about individual training accounts for workers or the need for smaller aircraft carriers. His high-tech notions were often imaginative, but they benumbed voters...
...Phoenix air-to-air missile has become a symbol for both critics and supporters of the Pentagon's penchant for high-tech weaponry: at $950,000 a shot, it is designed to be launched from the Navy's supersophisticated F-14 fighter jets and to home in on enemy planes using computer-guided radar - when it works. Last week the Navy, which budgeted $388.7 million for the missiles this fiscal year, publicly complained about the quality of the product. It told Hughes Aircraft Co. it would no longer accept shipments because of "marginal workmanship." Said one Navy officer...
...fear of losing votes, both candidates are deliberately avoiding a detailed discussion of the austerity measures that must go into effect after the election. Shamir and Peres agree that, in the long run, one way out of the current economic predicament is to develop the country's promising high-tech industries, which are derived in large part from weapons research; they did $1.5 billion in foreign business last year, up from $103 million in 1972. The Israeli arms industry is pinning its hopes on two big-ticket items. The Merkava tank is a new, wedge-shaped machine that can hold...
...Goodyear automatically will send another set of tires right on over to one of our plants." By providing EDS with billions of dollars in new business, GM hopes to build the firm into the dominant company in the growing $20 billion computer-services industry. The automaker has devised high-tech products of its own, including computer-aided manufacturing equipment, that EDS will be able to offer to industrial clients...