Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America's high-tech companies do not have to look back: they know the Japanese are coming. U.S. computer-chip manufacturers, concerned that their survival is threatened, have gone to Congress for protection. And fear is rising that if the chipmakers go down, it will be only a matter of time before Japan overtakes the U.S. in the computer business. That would put an end to America's high-tech supremacy...
...prime beneficiary of the triumph of ideas over matter. The Japanese may not be also-rans in software and custom chips forever. But at a time when so many books talk only about what is wrong with the U.S., Gilder's optimism about the future of American high-tech is refreshing...
COMPUTER, HIGH TECH & ENGINEERING...
...planned to develop Coto de Caza as an upscale resort community and needed a resident tennis pro to lure buyers. Offered the job, Braden accepted on the condition that the company build him a tennis college of his own design and, when that got into the black, a high-tech sports-research center. Six years after the Vic Braden Tennis College opened, in 1974, Arvida Corp., which had taken over Coto de Caza, dedicated a $1.3 million research center on the site...
Given a choice between two product lines, one thriving and the other struggling, most companies would have no problem deciding which one to embrace. But for Zenith, the decision was painful. The suburban-Chicago company surprised the high-tech industry last week by agreeing to sell its prosperous computer division to France's Groupe Bull for about $635 million. In doing so, Zenith, the last major U.S. maker of TV sets, decided to stake its future on that risky and supercompetitive business...