Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sophisticated service industries as health care, finance and consulting. Tourism plays a part, as do insurance, education, construction and a massive increase in drudging service-sector jobs. But to envious observers in less prosperous states, the magic secret of Massachusetts' success is summed up in one phrase: high tech...
...High tech became to New England what oil is to Houston," says Barry Bluestone, economics professor at Boston College and co-author of the newly published study, The Deindustrialization of America. The scientific revolution of the post-World War II era began in the research labs surrounding Boston and its universities, particularly M.I.T and Harvard. New space-age industries grew up around Boston along Route 128. When the computer age arrived in earnest in the late 1970s, Massachusetts, with an educated but cheap labor pool, was ready. Between 1976 and 1978 alone, 47,000 jobs were generated. Currently, almost...
...Urban Development Action Grant helped induce Wang Laboratories, a $900 million computer firm, to move its headquarters to Lowell. By 1982, Wang and other new high-tech firms helped bring 6,000 new jobs to Lowell. Today, companies that assemble computer-age products on the wide-plank floors of restored 19th century mills employ 20% of Lowell's labor force...
...group claimed responsibility for the practical jokes, but several MIT students linked the interruptions to the school's Undergraduate Association, noting that an ad in last Tuesday's The Tech called for conspirators: "Secret Agents needed," the ad stated. "If you'd like to take part in a hack on an unnamed college up the road, please call the UA office and leave a message...
...Union to a mirror image of the "window of vulnerability" that so worries Reagan. That vulnerability will be even more acute for the Soviets, since their submarines and bombers are far inferior to those of the U.S. So are Soviet precision-guided munitions, miniaturized guidance systems and other high-tech hardware that proved so devastating in the Falklands and Lebanon...