Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...undisputed hero in the 1980s has been that footloose, creative pathfinder the entrepreneur. At a time when corporate America often seemed incapable of daring innovation, the likes of Apple Computer's Steve Jobs and Microsoft's Bill Gates forged breakthroughs in semiconductors, software and personal computers. Even in lower-tech fields, such risk takers as Domino's Pizza Founder Tom Monaghan demonstrated an impressive ability to create new products and services that no dominant corporation could match. "This has been a great age to be living in if you're an entrepreneur," exclaims Alfred Rappaport, a Northwestern University business professor...
...beginning to voice concern about what Harvard Economist Robert Reich has dubbed "chronic entrepreneurialism." These contrarians contend that America's obsession with start-up companies is undermining U.S. competitive strength. They blame the proliferation of small companies for an alarming loss of U.S. market share in strategic high-tech businesses, ranging from semiconductors to fiber optics. The constant sprouting of new ventures, they explain, may be weakening the U.S. industrial structure by splintering American manufacturing power into too many small pieces...
Until now, Israel has relied on reconnaissance aircraft and high-tech drones for its intelligence. In addition, since Arab forces took Israel by surprise in the 1973 October War, the U.S. has provided Jerusalem with top-secret satellite information to help meet its defense needs. But the Israelis complain that U.S. officials "filter" the information, omitting data that Washington deems irrelevant. The Israelis also grumble that they receive the data too late. Israel regularly petitions the U.S. for its own ground links to American satellites, but Washington refuses. Supporters of Israel blame America's stinginess with its data for Israel...
...remote Bahawalpur, 330 miles south of Islamabad, Pakistan's capital. Accompanied by U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel, the Pakistani President watched field tests of the American-made M-1 Abrams tank, which he was interested in buying for his country's army. After spending the day observing the high-tech vehicle climb around the dunes, Zia, Raphel and a large entourage boarded a U.S.-built C-130 transport to fly back to the military airport at Rawalpindi, near Islamabad...
FRANKENSTEIN -- PLAYING WITH FIRE. The doctor tracks his doomed creation to the North Pole in a visually arresting, high-tech version, told in flashback, at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis...