Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million. So far the champion cash collector and the candidate with the most media sizzle is Zschau, 46, a former Stanford business professor and successful electronics entrepreneur (founder of System Industries, Inc.) who has earned broad respect after only two terms in Congress. At fund raisers across California, high-tech execs like Hewlett- Packard Co-Founder David Packard and other businessmen such as Reagan "Kitchen Cabinet" Member Armand Deutsch hail Zschau as "one of us" and provide a copious flow of campaign cash, expected to top $3 million...
...near the speed of sound in dead of night, at times under intense antiaircraft fire, how could pilots of the F-111 fighter bombers plant so many of their bombs on or near targets as small and discrete as a single building or a row of planes? By high-tech wizardry that makes a real-life bombing run seem almost as simple as a video game...
...severe cases of endometriosis, surgical removal of the ovaries and uterus may be the only solution. But less extreme surgery can often help. At Atlanta's Northside Hospital, Dr. Camran Nezhat has had success with a high- tech procedure called videolaseroscopy, which employs a laparoscope rigged with a tiny video camera and a laser. The camera images, enlarged on a video screen, enable Nezhat to zero in on endometrial tissue and vaporize it with the laser. In a study of 102 previously infertile patients, Nezhat found that 60.7% were able to conceive within two years of videolaseroscopy treatment...
...emergence of George Mason University, ten miles across the Potomac from Washington, unblushingly describes his public university's mission. "We are entrepreneurial," he says, "responding to the needs of our community." That community is rich Fairfax County, Va., one of the nation's fast-growing areas, loaded with high-tech corporations employing professionals who demand continuing education. "We have CEOs who want doctorates in economics," says Johnson. "Their wives are considering going to law school...
...students, the school has concentrated on the region's best fields of opportunity: public policy, high tech and the performing and fine arts. All at bargain rates: in-state tuition will be $1,680; out-of-staters will...