Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most refined TVs spent their lives disguised as pieces of French provincial or early American furniture. But in much the same way the console hi-fi set was split into separate components 20 years ago and turned into the stereo sound system, the TV now comes in high-tech building blocks with vastly improved capabilities. This marks the biggest change to hit TV since color sets began replacing black-and-white ones in the early '60s. Says Lenny Mattioli, a video dealer in Madison, Wis.: "It used to be that a TV was a TV. Not any more...
...Jackson is favored in four largely black districts in Los Angeles and San Francisco, and Mondale looks strong in some urban districts with heavy concentrations of union workers, Hispanics, Jews and the elderly. But Hart has great appeal among California's large Yumpie population, particularly in high-tech Silicon Valley. Californians have a tradition of upsetting front runners; in 1976, for instance, their Governor, Jerry Brown, beat Jimmy Carter by 1.3 million votes. Indeed, California has not voted for the eventual Democratic nominee since it went for George McGovern...
...notion that Ronald Reagan by some alchemy is a "Teflon President," one with some sort of magical resistance to being stained by his own actions, is a natural precipitate of the high-tech political generation. The idea is glitzy, and probably wrong...
...company shopping is expected to be especially good in coming weeks. Many firms enjoying high profits are flush with cash and hunting for acquisitions. Among the possible targets: high-tech companies whose stocks have fallen, financial services and energy companies. With opportunities plentiful, there will be no shortage of mergermen to make the deals...
...however, laws tailored to punish high-tech criminals are beginning to make their way onto the books. The Massachusetts legislature is considering a model measure, prepared with the help of local computer experts, that spells out crimes in precise technical terms and calls for tough penalties: for example, $5,000 fines and up to a year in jail for hackers who crack security codes just for the fun of it, triple damages for persons found guilty of malicious tampering. The California legislature is considering a bill that would strengthen its pioneering computer-crime law, enacted in 1979, by stiffening penalties...