Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the record-smashing Wall Street rally that started last fall, even the long-moribund technology stocks have come back to life. Since October, according to the California Technology Stock Letter, shares in its index of 30 high-tech companies have climbed about 22%. Cashing in on that market strength, Microsoft, the second-largest independent manufacturer of computer software (1985 revenues: $163 million), announced last week that it will make an initial public offering of 2.5 million shares in March. The Bellevue, Wash., company hopes to garner $16 to $19 for each share. Microsoft may serve as a bellwether...
...officials around the country. The party hands reported on the pro-Marcos voting prospects in their locales, the lineup of poll inspectors and campaign issues. Meanwhile, more detailed election data were fed into a newly installed computer system in a presidential office building. According to opposition critics, the high-tech apparatus could be used to estimate the number of false ballots that might be required to win at each location...
When Harvard's Office of Information Technology (OIT) barreled into the the student computer market with manufacturer-subsidized, cut-rate Macintoshes from Apple, Inc., local high-tech merchants were apprehensive. And the business certainly hasn't been smooth, with three outside computer stores in Harvard Square going under in the past six months...
Melvin Kranzberg, a professor of the history of technology at Georgia Tech, believes that the space triumphs of the past 25 years have sustained us when our wars and social experiments faltered and failed. Even the tragedies have intensified the experience. "We've got to go on," says Kranzberg. "Man's most abiding quest is the effort to understand himself in relation to the cosmos...
BUSINESS NOTES RETAILING COUPONS FOR THE COMPUTER AGE BUNDLED TOGETHER AND STUFFED INTO WALLETS OR PURSES. NOW DISCOUNT COUPONS, WHICH ARE USED BY SOME 80% OF U.S. HOUSEHOLDS TO LIGHTEN THE LOAD OF GROCERY BILLS, ARE ENTERING THE HIGH-TECH ERA. MANY SHOPPERS IN THE NEW YORK, SEATTLE, SAN FRANCISCO AND LOS ANGELES AREAS CAN GET COUPONS QUICKLY AND NEATLY FROM NEW COMPUTERIZED...