Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flawed. "When we predict long-term price declines, we assume design stability," he said. In reality, the cost of high-tech systems invariably skyrockets because of unrealistic initial estimates, obsessive design changes and erratic production rates. "Our plans have got to take into account that instability...
...results in massive sacrifices in the quantity of arms to achieve what seems on the surface to be improvements in quality. "The fallacy of the past 40 years has been that technology will save us," says the Heritage Foundation's Kuhn. The trend toward relying on high-tech weapons to offset the numerical advantages enjoyed by the Soviet bloc accelerated during the tenure of Robert McNamara as Defense Secretary and has led to a bureaucratic infatuation with "gold plating" every new system. Spinney's seminal 1980 report concluded with the warning: "Our strategy of pursuing ever increasing technical...
With their splashes of strong color and rectilinear features, they look like the canvases of a painter. In fact, the pictures are a new form of art, of the high-tech kind. Photographed from 440 miles out in space, they are views of the earth by the U.S.'s newest and most versatile earth-observing satellite, a multieyed robot called Landsat 4. Launched last July, it has been faithfully circling the globe, swinging from pole to pole and back again once every 98.9 minutes, taking electronic shots of every spot on the planet, except a small region around...
Merceth said representatives of many high tech firms, including Polaroid, Raytheon, Digital, and the First National Bank of Boston have expressed enthusiasm for the idea. Many of these companies would be willing to let such workers go because middle-aged employees often do not have the necessary education to keep up with scientific advances, she added...
...East-West technology transfers, estimated that more than 20,000 Soviet and East bloc agents are now at work pilfering the latest Western gadgetry, and have whittled down the West's overall technological lead from ten years to about two. Prime American targets are the East Coast's high-tech corridor stretching from Boston to Baltimore, Southern California's aerospace industries, and the Silicon Valley, near San Francisco. The Soviet consulate in San Francisco has as many as 30 KGB and GRU agents, most of them scientific and technical experts...