Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...graduates still trail in top schools nationwide in attaining managerial or executive positions, largely because society stereotypes engineers as "nerds," according to The Tech...
...said a report by the the National Academy of Sciences stated, "Professors and employers alike refer to the dramtically higher communication and social skills of engineering students. They seem to have a richer education and cultural background and are more confident and assertive than engineers of the past," The Tech reported...
...Fujisawa Municipal Gymnasium (1982) exemplifies the impeccable craft of his best work since then. Like much Japanese architecture of the past 25 years, it has a sci-fi quality: one section of the building resembles some enormous otherworldly blimp, the other calls to mind a high-tech samurai helmet. But unlike the slicker gimmicky UFO architecture (Kurokawa's earlier work, for instance), Maki's gym is restrained and sober, a mature fantasy. The flawless, parabolic stainless-steel skin is 1.6 acres in size but just about one-sixtieth of an inch thick...
...center. Stereo music can be piped into each room, and, using infrared remote-control devices, the family can operate the sound system and even select a track on a compact disc from any part of the house. The home also has 4 1/2 baths, six fireplaces and a high-tech exterior lighting system. But the really impressive part of the house is its price...
...Purveyors of high-tech consumer electronics are also fond of the megahome trend: it often allows them to sell twice as many goodies to one homeowner. Dual "entertainment centers," including one for the children, are increasingly common in today's luxury homes. Both centers may be outfitted with records and audio-and videotapes, along with movie and big-screen-TV equipment. At the Blackhawk luxury-house complex in Danville, Calif., one homeowner installed a separate entertainment center with a TV and stereo in the guest suite of his 10,000-sq.-ft. Normandy-style chateau, for those times when...