Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most universities, there is rivalry between scientific and liberal- arts communities for influence and funding. At Stanford the contest between "techies" and "fuzzies" has been lopsidedly dominated by the former. "The reality now is that it's much more like Stanford Tech than a college," says Stanford Grad Mary Munter, a professor at Dartmouth's Tuck School. "There's far less interest in the humanities." As a result, the liberal arts are the one area where Stanford clearly lags behind its Eastern rivals...
...High tech equipment has taken the place of the magic sponge in Harvard's training room. The Dillon Field House facility is one of a handful in the country with its own X-ray machine and technician, Baker says. In addition, trainers can prescribe ultrasound and electrostimulating treatment or rehab work on a new $35,000 CYBEX isokinetic machine, which regulates resistance as athletes flex injured joints...
...Administration, suggests that the U.S. can do a better job of stimulating American sales in foreign markets. It is fine, for example, that the U.S. is now pressuring Japan to accept more beef and citrus products. But the Government could focus more attention on ensuring fair trade in high-tech industries that have greater strategic importance to the U.S. economy...
Several industrial agreements have been signed since November. In the first of these ventures, Connecticut-based Combustion Engineering will provide machinery and software for managing petroleum production at refineries. Minnesota's Honeywell will equip Soviet fertilizer plants with high-tech manufacturing equipment. Occidental Petroleum will build two factories to supply plastics for food packaging, vinyl floors and other uses. Chevron is * discussing an oil-exploration venture, while Monsanto is negotiating joint production of a weed-killing herbicide...
...soldiers: SNECMA's chairman Rene Ravaud, a crusty, one-armed hero of the French Resistance, and GE's chief enginemaker Gerhard Neumann, who had served as ground-crew chief for the Flying Tigers in China. Each company brought a key ingredient to the partnership: GE shared its high-tech engine core, while the French firm contributed financing from its government. Yet, says Jean Bilien, head of the partnership's marketing company, "for nearly five years we had an engine but no buyer." The partners won their first contract just when the French government was on the verge of withdrawing...