Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strikers' high-tech gear, the pain is real enough. In better times the miners never worked on a Sunday (most are serious churchgoers; many are preachers). They earned more than $600 a week, had free medical benefits, seemed content with their simple lives in the savage hills and mountains of old Appalachia. For 14 months they worked without a contract while negotiating a new pact with the Pittston Coal Group, which operates some 40 mines in the region...
...heat. On April 1, two Hungarian scientists said that they had produced neutrons as well. Next Texas A&M scientists showed off an experiment on April 10 that they said had confirmed the heat readings recorded previously by Pons and Fleischmann. Fusion fever was rising now. Georgia Tech said on the same day that its jean-clad researchers had detected neutrons. Maddeningly, no one seemed to be looking for both heat and neutrons in a single experiment, to nail down whether fusion was in fact occurring. But Pons showed no doubt on April 12 as he addressed 7,000 members...
Star Wars. Bush and several of his top advisers view with skepticism Reagan's expensive vision of a high-tech shield from enemy missiles. The 1990 budget agreement cuts funding for the program to $4.6 billion from Reagan's proposed $5.9 billion...
...alloy engine boasts 32 valves, four for each cylinder, and an innovative air-intake system that can sip oxygen from a single narrow throttle valve or suck it full blast from a wide-mouth intake, depending on how sharply the driver presses the pedal to the metal. Other high-tech bells and whistles include a slick six-speed computer-assisted manual transmission and a suspension system that automatically adjusts shock absorbers to the speed...
...Backstage Studio Tour tram passes one movie set, a propman waves jerkily, keying the tour's theme: high tech meets low comedy. A guide points to a sound stage where new Mouseketeers are taping a show: "They do their own stunts, and they do them without Annette." On monitors, TV's Huxtable clan explains how a sitcom is shot, while patriarch Cosby dresses up in various sports uniforms and shouts, "I'm goin' to Disney World!" Beatty explains set design, Lucas and two mechanical friends discuss post-production, Gibson and Herman demonstrate sound editing, Midler stars in a short comedy...