Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Texas Tech 57, Baylor...
...high-tech firms now riding the crest of their industry's boom simultaneously drain gifted teachers away from their jobs, but these firms will find themselves in a most difficult position in the years ahead when less and less brain-power is available because nobody was there to develop it. Such actions as Congress' proposed bill and the Ed School's retraining program are welcome efforts in an otherwise bleak situation, but they represent only a beginning. Major strides in filling high school staffs with competent math and science teachers will only occur when these teaches receive higher salaries...
...pursuit of the latest "bells and whistles," as high-tech frills are called in the military, is a major factor in producing massive cost overruns. The technological tinkering also causes production delays, pushing up inflation costs. Getting a final 5% to 10% improvement in performance can raise the cost of a weapons system by anywhere from 20% to 50%, according to Jacques Gansler, former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for materiel acquisition. Augustine's Law of Insatiable Appetites puts it more bluntly: "The last 10% of the performance sought generates one-third of the cost and two-thirds...
...Pennsylvania as an engineer. He joined the Air Force and was assigned to a team at Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base that analyzed why U.S. planes were shot down so often over Viet Nam. He did so well that the Air Force sent him to Florida Tech to get an M.B.A., then posted him to the Pentagon in 1972 as one of the youngest officers ever to join the research and development team of the service's Deputy Chief of Staff...
...robot's name is BOB (Brains On Board). At present it cannot even fetch a beer from the refrigerator, but its buoyant creator, High-Tech Millionaire Nolan Bushnell, 40, forsees an almost boundless future for the $2,500 machine. Concerned about crime in your neighborhood? Not to worry, "Home security," says Bushnell, "is just moments away." With the proper software, he claims, BOB could patrol a house and call the police when its heat sensor sniffs an intruder. When BOB isn't watching the house, he could be cleaning it. "As soon...