Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tech and Taxes...
...Virginia 90, Va. Tech...
Downtown, new office towers rise in curvilinear splendor. On the West Side, the first of a series of high-tech parks has opened, with two genetic-technology firms as the first tenants. Plans for the 1992 World's Fair are under way. Indeed, a local business publication predicts a spirited upturn this year and says the long-term future looks even brighter. Still, in the other part of Chicago, the old world of smokestacks and stockyards, the recession dominates. The city has lost 160,000 jobs in the past decade, mostly in manufacturing. The steel mills that rim Lake...
...employer, is 55% defense related. Boeing and Beech reportedly plan to hire 8,000 more employees over the next few years. Unlike many other Midwest cities, Wichita may need no major economic retooling. Says Jerry Mallot, a Chamber of Commerce official: "Much of our industry is in the high-tech area. We don't produce steel or autos. We have the products of the future." -By Maureen Dowd. Reported by Barbara B. Dolan/Detroit and J. Madeline Nash/Chicago
...small contingent of the demonstrators came from the Communication Workers of America, who have been trying to organize the mostly non-union high-tech industry...