Word: techs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...aircraft tycoon. Nor is it likely that Pickens would succeed if he tried, since a hostile takeover could cost as much as $13 billion. Some investment pros believe Pickens aims to encourage a takeover bid by a large corporation like cash-rich Ford, which might be seeking high-tech acquisitions. As a major stockholder, Pickens could reap a fortune from any such merger. Alternatively, Pickens' strategy may be to force Boeing management to enhance its share price by launching a stock buy-back...
...influence was closer to home. In the '60s, Bond spawned a whole genre of superspy imitators: Matt Helm and Harry Palmer in movies, Maxwell Smart and the men from U.N.C.L.E. on TV. Later a young generation of filmmakers found inspiration in the series' success. The past decade of high-tech adventure movies, from Star Wars to Raiders of the Lost Ark to RoboCop, would be unimaginable without the brut effervescence and special-effects expertise bottled in Bond...
Most of the art is in storage on the floor above, accessible to scholars but not overcrowding the walls below. There is no sense of display, no anxious signaling about peak experiences. Piano's design eschews the high-tech theatrics that made such a mess of the Centre Pompidou in Paris, which he co- designed a decade ago. If ever one building in an architect's career made amends for another, it is this. Imagine something akin to the Frick Museum, but with fewer masterpieces and devoted to the juncture between modernism and the archaic, a place where disinterested aesthetic...
Like The Terminator, the action scenes combine a mix of high-tech special effects with good-old rough 'em up fighting. But this time, it's good to see all the mechanized firepower working on the side of justice instead of against it. And Robocop's combination of controlled force and execution of the laws puts Dirty Harry to shame...
...flight paths based on wind conditions. The technology does not have great military significance, but the incident could hardly have come at a more embarrassing time for Japan. Tokyo has been on the defensive for a month because of revelations that a subsidiary of Toshiba sold the Soviets high-tech equipment for the manufacture of submarine propellers. The uncovering of a second spy scandal will not make matters any better. Said a Japanese government official: "This is just the thing we need to make the Yanks hopping mad again...