Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Khashoggi began to spread his wealth into other investments -- banks, fledgling high-tech companies, farms and ranches -- his attorney Morton MacLeod tried to create a corporate organization for his enterprises. It did not work. "We were thinking of corporate organizational structures, operating capital and bottom-line earnings," says MacLeod. "He's thinking more in % terms of people, relationships, alliances." Khashoggi is not an administrator. Instincts guide him; details do not concern him, and he leaves them to his aides...
...Crimson Tide's new coach also reflects Thomas's commitment to academics. Curry earned an engineering degree at Georgia Tech and recalled how his college football coach had helped him with his studies by making him run steps when he cut chemistry. As a professional football player, Curry learned that only 37 percent of NFL players had a college degree. If you want proof positive that Curry was hired to do more than win, just look at his own record. Coaching at his alma mater, he had a losing record--hardly the normal credentials to coach...
White and delicate, high tech yet oddly primitive, the plane looks like some elegant insect or a sleek, latter-day pterodactyl. With her reedlike central wing slicing across three slender cylinders, she might have been designed by an austere modern sculptor rather than an aeronautical engineer. In an age of space travel and supersonic flight, her mission is a throwback to a different kind of odyssey: to fly not faster, but longer. Not higher, but farther. Voyager is a flight of fancy, of quaint possibility...
More than any of its predecessors, this contest pivots on high-tech advances. All competitors now have winged keels for stability, as well as sophisticated onboard data processors. Some syndicates were aided by government specialists and their supercomputers. The blueprints for French Kiss came from the labs of Dassault-Breguet, the French aircraft manufacturer famous for its Mirage fighter jets. A team of 30 scientists, including several "Star Wars" weapons-system researchers from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, perfected USA's unique rudders at bow and stern that help prevent sideslip...
...second section in the under-the-tree collection rests on the need to . . . baby it. Toys marketed for boys still hold the high-tech edge. In the girls' department, the wildly popular My Little Pony is a product line featuring simple anthropomorphic equines made to be fussed over, just as Cricket and Baby Talk are dolls meant to be cared for, changed and charged up with generous quantities of batteries to operate their voices and make their faces move. Baby Talk comes up with provocative dialogue like "I love you" and "Turn me over" (lines certain to elicit a lively...