Word: techs
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...effort to win the competition, each of the principal bidders has formed an alliance with other big firms that can bring to the project expertise in large computer networks and other skills. AT&T has linked up with Boeing, which already operates a high-tech voice-and-data network for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. MCI is working with Martin Marietta, the aerospace giant, and Northern Telecom, Canada's largest telephone-equipment manufacturer. U.S. Sprint has enlisted Electronic Data Systems, the data-processing subsidiary of General Motors...
...High-tech phone services are not cheap, so some features may have limited appeal. Pennsylvania Bell charges $5 a month for call blocking and $3 every time a customer activates call tracing, which scans an electronic directory of phone listings in order to identify the source of a call. The cost may decline, however, as more users subscribe to the services. By 1990, about half of the more than 80 million U.S. households with telephones will have access to CLASS services...
...users master the new complexities of phones, they find that the gadgets save them time and energy. Businesses, in particular, report that high-tech phones increase productivity and cut travel costs by making it possible to meet and swap information by phone line instead of by airline. Says Gary Handler, vice president of network planning for Bell Communications Research, the engineering arm for the local telephone companies: "The telephone network of the next generation will be capable of doing almost anything the public wants. The only question: Is the public ready?" If the speed with which smart telephones are appearing...
...funk-rock score is blasting so loudly that it vibrates spectators right out of their chairs, and its 27-member cast is whizzing by on roller skates at speeds of up to 30 m.p.h., attired in what looks like a cross between medieval jousting costumes and high-tech robot gear, Starlight Express is surely one of the most astonishing spectacles in the annals of the stage. If likely to baffle and frustrate regular theatergoers, it may also enthrall brand-new audiences, especially those under the age of reason. Inspired in equal measure by the roller derby, Coney Island fun fairs...
With the Spartans also in the semifinals, some fans are hoping for a rematch of last year's Harvard-MSU thriller in Providence. Minnesota and Michigan Tech are the only two teams which have faced each other in consecutive national finals--from 1974-76. The Golden Gophers sandwiched national championships around Tech's 1975 victory...