Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...once, a politician was guilty of understatement. Today Greater Orlando, with Walt Disney World as its golden profit center, is one of the nation's fastest-growing areas in population, revenue and new-tech industry. The people who live and work in Orlando are there for the same reasons as those who visit: because of its proximity to an all-ages fun-time wonderworld. Here is a metropolis whose success has been erected on the American family's itch for entertainment. Not since Southern California sprang up around the burgeoning Hollywood film colony has a region owed its riches...
Harvard aids those interested in corporate jobs through the OCS recruiting program, which puts seniors in touch with everything from investment banks to high-tech firms to advertising agencies. But almost 20 percent fewer seniors this year jumped at the chance to be interviewed by these businesses...
...most ways, business could not be better for Fiat and its charismatic chairman, Gianni Agnelli. The Italian conglomerate, which manufactures such high-tech equipment as robotics and telecommunications systems, as well as autos and other vehicles, has come roaring back from a string of losses in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Fiat's profits increased 113% last year, to a record $884 million on sales of $18 billion. But the company has been unable to escape an increasingly embarrassing problem: about 15% of its stock is owned by Libya, and two representatives from the land of Muammar Gaddafi...
...York City features half-day and full-day schedules. At Le Pli, located by the Charles Hotel in Cambridge, Mass., weekend guests stay at the hotel, get a fitness evaluation, nutrition advice, massages, facials and body wraps. Kathleen Keady, 30, a field sales engineer for a high-tech firm, plunked down $950 for one such spree and says it was worth it: "I got discipline from...
...militant wing, was found guilty of sabotage and sentenced to life imprisonment, and, a little later, the banned A.N.C. set up a government-in-waiting in newly independent Zambia. Today a few hundred A.N.C. employees coordinate cultural projects, run a radio station and even manage a high-tech 10,000-acre farm on which they grow food to feed their forces. Meanwhile, an estimated 10,000 fighters are trained, apparently by East German and other advisers, in northern Angola. For their ideological education, the rebels go to the Marxist-leaning Solomon Mahlangu College in Tanzania...