Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dartmouth put up a fight through the first half of the 2000 meter Charles River course, but at the 1200 meter mark of the MIT boathouse, despite the vociferous Tech and Green supporters. Harvard grabbed a lead it never relinquished...
...School's fledgling Mid-Career Math-Science Program has attracted five students and much national attention. One student is a retired Army colonel with an advanced nuclear engineering degree who made $50,000 a year in business. Another is a woman who came from the booming high-tech industry of optical photography. Two others were engineers in industrial research...
...program known as the Ed-Tech Center, funded by a $7.7 million Department of Education grant. The center studies how computers and other technology can be used to improve teaching of math and science...
...help organize the balloting and guarantee its fairness. Unfortunately, some of that aid contributed to the chaos that cast a pall over the vote. Determined to ensure a truly honest and foolproof election, El Salvador's central election commission ignored U.S. embassy warnings against the installation of high-tech computer voting procedures for a low-tech electorate (more than 40% of the eligible voters are illiterate). Summed up Jorge Rochac, the U.S.-educated consultant who served as overseer for the intricate voting system: "We have three miles of dirt road and the election commission bought a Cadillac...
...path to developing a wide range of high-tech products, Canon has stumbled on occasion. In 1975 it suffered heavy losses on a line of unsuccessful pocket calculators. Though the firm is now zooming along, officials are worried about possible trade barriers from the U.S. and Europe. That could be crippling, since some 75% of Canon's sales are exports. As a result, the company is gradually moving production overseas to new plants in such places as California and West Germany...