Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Pointing up this problem, a recent California survey showed that 36 of 49 underground storage tanks in the high-tech Silicon Valley were leaking. The seepage contaminated surrounding soil and fouled pockets of ground water beneath such communities as Santa Clara, Mountain View, Sunnyvale and San Jose. The California assembly, following the lead of eight cities in Santa Clara County that have passed ordinances to prevent such spills, has approved a tough toxic control law. As the measure moves on to the state senate, the mellow industrialists of Silicon Valley, to their acute discomfort, find themselves accused of poisoning their...
Specialty steels account for only 10% of American steel sales, but they are nonetheless the glamorous high-tech end of the business, the items that can produce big profits. Stainless steel, used for knives, forks and hundreds of other products, is one such metal. Jet-engine fan blades, nuclear-reactor control rods and orthopedic body implants are made of others. But just as the older American carbon-steel industry is being clobbered by competition from abroad, so too are specialty steels. As Wall Street Analyst Peter Anker put it, "No other country would permit the kind of intrusion in their...
...seemed completely happy with the decision. Lloyd McBride, president of the United Steelworkers of America, complained that the President should have used lower quotas rather than higher tariffs to block imports. Said he: "Where tariffs are substituted for quotas, it never works." Adolph Lena, chairman of Al Tech Specialty Steel Co. in Dunkirk, N.Y., and an industry spokesman, called the measures "wholly inadequate...
...Evelyn Wood could read in a lifetime. Last year's contest will enter the history book for two reasons. Harvard's 45-7 romp set a school record for points scored against Yale. And a Massachusetts Institute of Technology fraternity prank--in which a hydraulically-powered-balloon bearing the Tech's initials popped out of turf in the middle of the game--set an MIT record for most points scored against Harvard. This year's classic will be special as the 100th playing of The Game...
...chronicling the fortunes of the many small electronics companies that all seem to have been conceived in garages and nutured around Boston or in California's Silicon Valley. This week's cover story, however, looks in another direction. It treats a very large, relatively old, traditional high-tech company, headquartered in New York's Hudson Valley, that has staged a spectacularly successful invasion of the personal-computer market: IBM, the once and future colossus. Says Business Editor George M. Taber, who supervised the story: "After telling the troubles of corporate behemoths like General Motors and U.S. Steel...