Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Sixth Fleet struck at Libyan air-defense batteries and patrol boats a fortnight ago without suffering a single casualty, America's top military brass celebrated more than just a victory over Muammar Gaddafi. The Pentagon offered the Navy's demonstration of high-tech firepower as a telling retort to an increasingly restive band of congressional critics who accuse the military of building "gold-plated" weapons that will turn out to be duds in combat. Like Libya's radar transmitters, the Pentagon's detractors were silenced, but only for the moment...
Though final action reports will not be available for some months, Pentagon officials last week continued to defend the performance of the Navy's high- tech weapons. With so-called smart weapons like the harm, which homes in on radar signals to find its way to the target, "you get a higher probability of kill," says Donald Hicks, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. "But you have to recognize that nothing is perfect." Such smart weapons are designed to cripple a radar dish, not destroy an entire missile site...
...economic base of this part of the state is a combination of high tech and universities," and the two areas complement each other, Vice President for Government and Community Affairs John Shattuck said...
There are no speeding-car chases or high-tech weapons, just Middle Ages state- of-the-art horse and armor. Still, in her screen debut, Deborah Leigh Moore felt a definite kinship with the dapper 007 portrayed by her dad Roger Moore. "I fight the Tafurs and the Saracens with sword and dagger, and I joust in tournaments with a lance on horseback," says Deborah, who has just been filming Lionheart on location in Portugal. "I feel like I am playing the feminine side of the sort of thing my father used to do." A generation and a few centuries...
That condition -- what Drucker calls the "uncoupling" of the primary- products economy from the industrial economy -- is largely due to technological changes. Modern industrial processes in both high-tech and traditional industries, he notes, require far fewer raw materials and far less energy than before. Despite much talk about the "deindustrialization" of the U.S., Drucker notes, the manufacturing sector still holds steady at roughly 23% of American GNP -- about the same level as 30 years ago. Nor is the U.S. really suffering as an exporter of manufactured goods: its world market share increased from 17% to 20% between...