Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Until the high-tech methods are perfected, more conventional alternatives remain the most popular. About 30 states have funded "intensive probation supervision," in which participants are typically required to work, keep a curfew, pay victims restitution and, if necessary, receive alcohol or drug counseling. Instead of the usual caseload -- the nationwide average is 150 -- a probation officer in such experiments oversees just 25 people. Even with the added staff expense, the programs still cost less than incarceration...
...will study translations of a number of foreign texts. "We can use them for ideas," he says. Further, he would move geometry and algebra preparation down into the seventh grade, leaving the later years free for advanced studies, including statistics and computers. Says Travers: "The demands of a high-tech society require that we upgrade the quality of mathematical education our children are getting. Maybe we could get by with a mediocre performance in math 20 and 30 years ago, but I'm not sure we can afford this any longer...
...West Coast formula for doing so goes this way: first, "clear" the stone by washing it in ocean water (in a pinch, salt water will do). Then leave it outside for at least 24 hours so that rays of the sun and moon may penetrate it. A quicker, high-tech method is to pass an audiocassette eraser over each side of the crystal for half a minute. To program, after the crystal has been cleared, hold it in both hands and blow on it while making a wish. For good health, for instance, one might say, "I want this energy...
...idea was something along the lines of one for all and all for one. Top- notch U.S. high-tech companies would combine their research efforts and defeat their fierce competitors from Japan. But now the alliance, known as the $ Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corp. (MCC), is suffering some serious defections. Last week MCC announced that Unisys, Lockheed and Allied- Signal had given notice that they will be departing from the consortium at the end of the year. All three companies say in essence that being part of the group no longer fits their needs...
...successor to Bobby Inman, the former CIA deputy director, who left his post as chairman of MCC at the end of 1986. Inman, who says he now wants to concentrate on bringing advanced technology to the marketplace, will head Westmark Systems, a new holding company that will acquire high-tech defense-industry firms...