Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the master planners have L.A. sprawling off obediently to the desert, the metropolitan economy is supposed to be juiced up by more high-tech industry and a new era of trade with Asia and Latin America. "The growth in the Pacific rim has just begun," says Planner Mark Pisano. "It's going to take off like an exponential curve in two to four decades...
...Australia. The movie and TV business is only the hot tip of L.A.'s biggest job sector, its service industries, which together employ 882,000 people. There is a muscular side as well, with 869,000 workers in manufacturing, about a third in aerospace and other clean, high-tech industries. But parts of the city could pass for Buffalo. On the waterfront in Long Beach sit stacks of blue and orange cargo containers. In Lynwood, railroad tracks run past auto salvagers, truck-winch manufacturers, scrap-metal piles...
Fuentes who served as Mexico's Ambassador to France from 1974 until 1978 and has written 10 novels and three plays, was selected to speak by the Harvard Alumni Association (HAA) after Polish dissident Tech Walesa declined the University's Commencement invitation on April...
...most successful black mayors have created strong alliances with the white business establishments in their cities. Morial worked closely with the Chamber of Commerce to attract high-tech companies to New Orleans. Andrew Young was opposed by Atlanta's business community when he ran, but after his election he wooed its leaders over lunch, telling them, "I can't run the city without...
...memories of Saturday Night Fever suggest, Badham can be more than a high-tech hardware merchant. The first portions of WarGames are nearly irresistible. The reason that the mighty WOPR comes across as funny is that David, a bright high school lad (played by a very savvy young actor, Matthew Broderick, 21), accidentally makes contact with it while fooling around with his home computer. Boy and machine get to be friends, since they are both lonely and misunderstood. David is shy and sweet with his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy) but is wary of his parents and is a troublemaker in school...