Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Apparently, the only time that the "amateur" athlete can make a really big score is when he is being recruited. Georgia Tech basketball coach Bobby Cremins has already spent over $100,000 on recruiting this year and claims that he isn't done...
WHILE THE LINES for high-tech video adventures at Elsie's and Tommy's Lunch continued to grow with startling speed this semester, a sizeable portion of the Class of '85 busied itself by devising excuses for not playing the other computer game in town--the College's new quantitative reasoning requirement...
Some experts, though, are starting to warn that a paucity of engineers may hold back American economic and technological development. High-tech companies in the Sunbelt and the Northeast seem most concerned. Says William Howard, a vice president of Motorola who is based in Arizona: "The shortage has slowed down our progress, slowed down our development of new processes and slowed down our ability to do maintenance. The net effect is to put things on hold or do them more slowly until we can recruit the talent." A study prepared for California Governor Jerry Brown Jr. showed that the state...
Members of the Boca set mostly earn their money from things visible: real estate, high-tech electronics, retail chains, minerals and oil. They are generally in businesses that can be handled over the phone. Floyd and Bonnie Perkins spend most of their winters at their four-bed room home in Boca Raton. According to Bonnie, Floyd calls his oil-and gas-drilling company in Cambridge, Ohio, periodically and asks, "Are we making any money?" Then he says, "O.K., we'll stay another...
Paradoxically, the computer passion is often stirred in youngsters who seem least likely to be interested in high tech. Jay Harstad, 12, of Minnetonka, Minn., Utters his house with poems and sketches but will do almost anything to avoid doing his math homework. Yet Jay is one of the Gatewood Elementary School's premier computerniks and regularly helps teachers introduce fourth-graders to the machines. At West High School in Wausau, Wis., Chris Schumann, 16, a junior, has made a name for himself by translating musical notes into digital form and getting a computer to play Bach and Vivaldi...