Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From shopping malls to corporate computer centers, from fast-food joints to high-tech industrial plants, a common plea is popping up all across the U.S.: HELP WANTED. APPLY WITHIN. Suddenly America is running up against serious labor shortages that are crimping many businesses and forcing corporate headhunters to work overtime. As a result, says Richard Kappus, an analyst at the New York State department of labor, companies are having to "do more, spend more and bend over backward to attract workers." The shortages are most severe in low-paying service jobs and in many positions that require technical skills...
However, Leo Marx, committee chairman and professor of science, technology, and society, said in an interview with the The Tech, the MIT campus newspaper, that he would be suprised if MIT ever adopted the recommendations...
...This is all part of MIT's effort to provide more rounded undergraduate education and to achieve a more diverse student body," said Robert E. Malchman, night editor of The Tech...
...high tech also gets mixed in. Many drivers now have onboard computers to record fuel pressure and other parameters. A few teams have even started to use wind-tunnel testing. "First thing you know," says Garlits, "a computer'll be telling us what...
Uncle Sam is always listening. With high-tech spy satellites, ships jammed with electronic gadgetry, super- sophisticated listening posts around the globe and eavesdropping devices--and sometimes with the help of plain old- fashioned human spies--the U.S. constantly monitors many of the key telephone conversations and cable traffic of its friends and foes alike. The U.S. intelligence community does not want to reveal which of these methods it used to listen in as Colonel Gaddafi sent orders from Tripoli to his far-flung terror network. But U.S. officials insist there is little doubt that a fortnight...