Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tech-noir gloss, this is still a traditional thriller, eager to deliver moral lessons with its frissons. Cheat on your wife, and maybe she gets hurt. Leave your family, and maybe they get kidnaped. Go to bed with a woman you work with, and maybe she dies. These are New Hollywood's scary metaphors for sex in the high-risk '80s. Last year The Fly said that a woman could get involved with a nice guy who metamorphoses into a slavering insect. The current hit Fatal Attraction preaches that no man is safe from a fling who gets flung...
...sale of IBM computers to Transnautic Shipping, a company based in West Germany, might serve as a stirring example of America's ability to compete overseas. Transnautic, a Hamburg firm that coordinates ship traffic in the West German port, has been a satisfied customer indeed, buying many high-tech IBM products over the past decade. But last week the Transnautic-IBM connection gained unwanted notoriety as a symbol of the internal dissension that marks the U.S. Government's campaign to protect America's high-tech secrets. Reason: 51% of Transnautic is owned by the Soviet Union...
...Customs Service has made technology smuggling a high priority. Through a special project called Operation Exodus, started in 1981, the agency is pursuing more than 800 cases of high-tech thievery and arms smuggling. In one recent case, Customs unraveled an alleged plot to smuggle a sophisticated side-scan sonar device, an invaluable tool for tracking submarines. Made in New Hampshire, the device was bought by a Louisiana firm and shipped to Norway, then to Japan. A Japanese company was installing the device on a Soviet fishing trawler when officials closed...
Despite the Pentagon's concern, many business leaders and politicians think the time has come to be more discriminating about which exports to control. Billions of dollars in high-tech business is being lost to foreign rivals because overseas buyers are wary of America's far-reaching restrictions. Last year the U.S. posted a deficit in high-technology trade -- $2.6 billion -- for the first time ever. In 1980, by contrast, America had a high-tech surplus of $27 billion. "We ought to be placing higher fences around fewer items," says Jim LeMunyon, senior manager of government relations for the American...
...building. In a notable change of philosophy, the U.S. recently went along with a COCOM decision to remove controls on shipments of personal computers. Likewise, the two trade bills approved by the House and Senate both contain provisions that would prevent the Government from restricting U.S. sales of high-tech items that other industrial nations already sell on the open market. The movement will no doubt meet some resistance. North Carolina Republican Senator Jesse Helms is threatening to block the confirmation of C. William Verity, President Reagan's nominee to become Commerce Secretary, on the ground that the former steel...