Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high technology for its salvation. But competitiveness, high productivity, innovation - or their lack - will be even more decisive in the New Economy than in the old; an inefficient chip-maker will suffer just as much as an inefficient steelmaker. And the pitfalls will be just as deep for high-tech managers as for those in old-line industries. High tech is no passport to business success. Digital Equipment Corp. is a leader in the minicomputer business, but it is now having to run to catch up in micro computers. Xerox pioneered office copy machines, but it has had trouble finding...
...lawns of once proud neighborhoods, and retail shops are closing because regular customers no longer have extra money to spend. Unemployment rates stand at 14.9% in Michigan and 13% in Ohio, sharply above the national level of 10.2%. Yet in many other areas the rise of high-tech companies has spawned pockets of booming growth: the Route 128 strip around Boston, California's Silicon Valley and the Research Triangle Park area in North Carolina. The uneven distribution of job opportunities is beginning to cause mass migrations reminiscent of other periods in American history. Thousands of young people are heeding...
Moreover, the fastest areas of manufacturing growth will be high-tech fields such as semiconductors and computers, while old industries will continue to suffer. A committee of academics, Congressmen, labor leaders and business executives, chaired by Senator William Roth of Delaware and Congressman Don Bonker of Washington, will soon issue a report concluding that by the 1990s, employment in such smokestack industries as steel and autos will shrink from the present 20% of the labor force to perhaps...
...average of only its goals a game. NCAA Division I Baseball Northeast Regional At Orono, Maine Double-Elimination--Friday, May 27-Sunday, May 29 Temple (Seed 2) Game 1 (Winner game 1) HARVARD (3) Game 3 (winner game 3) Maine (1) Game 2 (winner game 2) New York Tech (4) Games 6 and (if needed) 7 Champion (loser game 3) Game 5 (winner game 5) (loser game 1) Game 4 (winner game 4) (loser game...
Temple (Seed 2) Game 1(winner game 1) HARVARD (3) Game 3 (winner game 3) Maine (1 Game 2 (winner game 2) Games 6 and (if needed) 7 New York Tech (4) Champion (loser game 3) Game 5 (winner game 5) (loser game 1) Game 4 (winner game 4) (loser game...