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Word: techs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chrysler intends to keep up with the automotive space race by making several high-tech acquisitions. In August 1985 the automaker spent $642 million to buy Gulfstream Aerospace, a maker of business jets. Iacocca has since been interested in a friendly takeover of a defense contractor priced at $1 billion or less but has been unable to find a suitable match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chrysler Thinking Fast and Making Moves | 11/24/1986 | See Source »

...million); a group who are often classified as functionally literate; they can read simple materials--but only at an elementary school level (about 25 million); and a group who are able to read elementary level materials, but who cannot cope with the more complex materials of an information high-tech society (about 50 million...

Author: By Jeanne S. Chall, | Title: Stopping Illiteracy at the Source | 11/22/1986 | See Source »

...University Tech-Tel Corporation, a private electronics company based in Washington D.C., pioneered the method in the spring of 1985 said Sumner Myers, president of Tech-Tel. He said the $560,000 Harvard project will be funded entirely by two grants from the Annenberg Project at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Math Class Will Attend Lectures at Home | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

...Tech-Tel received an initial grant of $25,000 in 1985 as winner of the foundation's thrice-annual competition for grants. The Annenberg Project awarded the remainder of the funding after the pilot project proved successful, said Myers...

Author: By Emily Mieras, | Title: Math Class Will Attend Lectures at Home | 11/19/1986 | See Source »

Thompson and Bert Gillman, owner of the Stock Pot, expressed basically the same opinion, saying that the high school, college, and graduate students they usually employ are "working in high-tech areas or are getting higher allowances...

Author: By Katherine E. Bliss, | Title: Harvard Square Businesses Want You | 11/18/1986 | See Source »

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