Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could not make long-distance calls, or even ring up nearby Chicago. O'Hare Airport endured two days of flight delays when controllers lost contact with the air-traffic control center in Aurora, Ill. From posh Oak Brook, where companies like McDonald's have their headquarters, to the high-tech corridor along the East-West Tollway, circuits were jammed for days...
Though Ronald Reagan has long since muted his language about the "evil empire," the White House has never stopped sounding alarms about the Soviets' drive to buy -- or steal -- Western defense technology. Soviet espionage, U.S. officials warn, is eroding the West's lead in high-tech weapons and saving the Kremlin millions of dollars in military research. To keep computers and other products with possible military uses from finding their way into the East bloc, the U.S. and its Western allies have imposed elaborate trade restrictions...
...steal our technology, they have nothing of value for us to buy or steal," says John Kiser, who heads a Washington firm that specializes in finding new plastics technology in the East bloc and helping U.S. companies negotiate licensing agreements. "Most people don't realize there's high tech over there to be brought...
Both East and West might make significant advances by expanding their modest contacts in high-tech fields. Says Multi-Arc Chairman Peter Flood: "If we were prepared to let them benefit from our production-engineering expertise in exchange for the scientific contribution they can make, the whole world would be better...
These characters were not new with Lucas, of course; they spanned epic literature from Ulysses and King Arthur to the Lord of the Rings and Gormenghast trilogies. But Star Wars gave a high-tech polish to the rustic hardware, a kick to the old eldritch machinery. Alas, a decade later, everything new in Lucas' films seems old again. There is a shroud of inevitability, of why-bother, about Willow's chase through the forest (done better in Return of the Jedi), the impromptu ride down a mountain on a warrior's shield (done better in The Living Daylights...