Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most recent result of a boom in urban rail-system construction. "There is more development going on now than in the past 100 years," exults Jack Gilstrap, executive vice president of the American Public Transit Association (A.P.T.A.). Since 1972, when San Francisco cut the ribbon on its high-tech headache, BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit), six other U.S. cities have opened new rail systems. Six cities currently have lines under construction. Thirteen other systems either have been proposed or are on the drawing boards...
...High-tech enthusiasts, though, still pushed up the price of stocks in the industries of the future. Among the winners: California's International Rectifier, a maker of specialized semiconductors, and Connecticut's Gerber Scientific, no relation to the baby-food maker, a producer of automated factory equipment...
...emerging ones like robotics should be given Government assistance only in exchange for accepting industrial-policy coordination. Fading industries like steel, which are demanding protection from foreign competitors, might be given temporary relief from imports if managers and workers accepted pay cuts and more flexible work rules. Whenever high-tech firms receive Government help, Reich would like to see them match public funds for research ventures with their own spending and make commitments to keep R. and D. operations in the U.S. instead of locating them abroad...
Computers will be joined under the tree by many beeping and buzzing friends. The electronics industry expects sales to increase by almost 25% this year over 1982. Sales of video cassette recorders will grow by more than 100% this year, and microwave ovens by nearly 50%. The high-tech clinkers this year are video games. About $1 billion worth of cartridges and consoles are expected to be bought, a 50% drop from...
...Glad It's Leap Year? The Buzzword-a-Day calendar, written by the authors of The Official MBA Handbook, gets the year off to a ruthless start by defining deadwood as "Anyone in your company who is more senior than you are." The Computer Desk Diary marks high-tech anniversaries like the date of Apple Computer's founding (Jan. 3). Jane Fonda's Year of Fitness and Health datebook provides recipes and exercise tips that focus on a different part of the body each month (October is thin-thighs month). Some 235,000 copies have been shipped...