Word: techs
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...changes in a shorter period than during 1982, a year when interest rates at long last slumped but unemployment soared; when bankruptcies ballooned but the stock market roared; when recession spread across the economy like oil on a mud puddle but business boomed for a growing list of high-tech games and products for computer-crazed consumers. It was, in short, a year of mind-boggling contrasts. More than anything else, 1982 was the year when the three-year-old inflation-fighting policy of Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, the nation's top central banker, finally paid...
...while special teachers and special programs may reach the most talented and fortunate students, the U.S. is rapidly becoming a high-tech society with low-tech education. Worried businesses have begun to share personnel and equipment with school systems, but such programs do not amount to national reform. As for the N.S.F, it has had its precollege education budget cut from $80 million to $15 million by the Reagan Administration. At last week's conference, N.S.F. Chief Knapp said that the Administration will continue to cut down programs aimed at students, but will soon begin supporting efforts to improve...
...finish the year with only 60,000 housing starts, down from 251,000 in 1977. The timber industry has already laid off 3,223 of its 21,000 workers, and the state expects to lose a total of 10,000 construction jobs in 1983. Even the much touted high-tech industries are feeling the pinch. The electronic-components field had back-to-back growth rates of 18% in 1978 and '79, but will probably close out this year with a 1.4% drop in sales. And the usually sparkling California wine industry reports sour grapes: only one-tenth...
Flood II also seeps through Squid & Spider (Prentice-Hall; $10.95). Guy Billout imagines the passenger list for a new ark: 800,000 insects; 8,580 birds; 6,000 reptiles. On the way, he renders the fauna with his dazzling high-tech style. The text brims with trivia guaranteed to hypnotize the young: crocodiles swallow stones to aid digestion; giraffes give birth standing up; the sperm whale can hold its breath for an hour. No illustration is more comically apropos than the one of St. Nicholas pulled by a sole reindeer. As wolves pursue his sleigh, Santa diverts them by tossing...
...face when trying to rebound from a big loss. WMPL (Harncock, Michigan) coaches hockey poll (includes Sunday's game) Pts. 1. Minnesota-Duluth 89 2. Minnesota 88 3. Bowling Green 80 4. Michigan St. 65 5. Clarkson 48 6. Providence 45 7. Wisconsin 32 8. Harvard 27 9. Michigan Tech 26 10. North Dakota 22 Also receiving votes Northern Michigan, St. Lawrence...