Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...race is on. No one wants to be left behind," says Ben Zour, senior analyst for strategic information at Eastman Kodak. The list of contenders in the research-and-development scramble reads like a Who's Who of U.S. high tech: Du Pont, IBM, 3M, Texas Instruments, NCR and GTE, among many others. AT&T is a giant in the field; its Bell Laboratories, with a research budget of some $2 billion annually, now conducts more research in optics than in its original core pursuit of electronics...
...dessert is not very nourishing. Captain EO is sugar but no spice, coating an audio-animatronic gridwork. What can be exhilarating and depressing about Walt Disney World is true of Captain EO: it is a triumph of the artificial, of high-tech wizardry and secondhand emotions. All of which makes EO just fine as a "total three-dimensional experience" but only the fourthbest film at Epcot. In the travelogues of China and France, and in Emil Radok's enthralling documentary about, yes, energy, the imagination is served, not dominated, by the special effects. These films evoke intense feelings for people...
...well that the fertility rate of the crowded island-state's 2.6 million people is only 1.5 children per family. Now, however, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew is concerned that the population will not be large enough to support the government's long-term goals of becoming a high-tech, export-oriented country. Accordingly, an Interministerial Committee on Population is preparing proposals that will encourage Singapore's couples to have more children. To kick off the new campaign, the government has coined a new slogan: "At Least Two. Better Three. Four If You Can Afford...
...brand-new, high-tech business blasted off in the U.S. last week: satellite launching. Martin Marietta, which manufactures Titan-class rockets for the Air Force, signed an agreement with Federal Express to send aloft its ExpressStar communications satellite in 1989. President Reagan had opened the way for the new industry last month, when he an- nounced that NASA will drastically reduce the number of commercial cargoes carried aboard the space shuttle...
Hiatt, former dean of the School of Public Health, said primary health care in developing countries is often terribly inadequate, but that "despite this, many of the countries spend most of their money on high-tech medical facilities...