Word: techs
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
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...