Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most students' favorite designer of cute icons is bringing its latest bushel of high-tech toys. The Macintosh II which is bigger, faster and more powerful than the present generation of Macintoshes and the Macintosh SE which is basically a Mac Plus with an expansion slot, will both be shown for the first time in the Boston area...
...While educators the world over seem to agree that the Japanese system is superior up through high school, Japanese universities have failed to achieve the same recognition. Japan's academic emphasis on rote learning fails to encourage the sort of innovative thinking that will be crucial to its high-tech future...
...becoming fully aware of the loss of its postwar industrial primacy. By its latest trade actions, Washington was clearly attempting to force Tokyo to change not only its outlook but also its historic attitudes. For the Reagan Administration, and indeed for America, the issue of protecting high-tech industries went beyond economics and politics to national pride. Long the world's technological leader -- and still in many respects the world front runner -- the U.S. was fighting hard to protect that role...
There are additional reasons why the current semiconductor confrontation has more powerful significance than previous trade squabbles. One is the importance of the microchips -- finely etched electronic devices that process thousands of bits of information per second -- to the burgeoning world of high tech. Semiconductors are now used in virtually every advanced technology, including the Cray supercomputers that are a key component of the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative. Says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Washington-based Institute for International Economics: "Practically everyone in the U.S. agrees that semiconductors is a critical industry and that it would...
...Stone (Ann Magnuson) and her friends and family encounter is in one way or another so insecure and self-absorbed as to be incapable of sustaining a decent relationship with a woman. It is only when Frankie, a public relations expert, takes an assignment for a manufacturer of high-tech doodads for the space program that she finds advanced science has fabricated what decades of psychological counseling and years of feminist lecturing have not been able to create: an android who is sensitive, caring and sexually satisfying in a way that natural men cannot manage...