Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past two years some $27 billion in junk bonds have been issued. Both raiders and corporate executives who wish to take their companies private use them to raise the needed money. "Junk bonds completely changed the nature of the game," says Michael Dingman, president of Allied-Signal, a high-tech giant formed last summer in the friendly merger of the two manufacturing concerns...
When the high-tech industry in Silicon Valley slows down, everybody, from realtors in Cupertino to restaurant owners along Stevens Creek Boulevard in San Jose, gets a bad case of the blues. But one of the best barometers of the health of California's computer manufacturers is Doug Young. He manages the Porsche dealership in Sunnyvale, in the heart of Silicon Valley. Sales at his showroom, where the most expensive models go for $50,000, are so sensitive to the region's economic trends that a few days of good news will generate a mini Porsche rally. On the other...
Spielberg went to outer space. Spielberg went to Egypt. Spielberg went to suburbia. Now, drunk with success and hubris, Spielberg has imposed his high-tech humanity on the myths of another age. The Sherlock Holmes stories, the embodiment of understated, subtle Victorian British refinement, come at us with all the sophistication of an Indiana Jones bullwhip in Young Sherlock Holmes, which is guaranteed to hit the jackpot this Christmas season...
Cute fuzzy creatures come to life, the kids magically fly through the air, evil is conquered when the hero learns to believe in himself, and we are living another high-tech sitcom from the suburban psyche of Spielberg and Lucas (whose firm had a part in the film's extensive special effects...
Doug Lifford, usually the number 10 player of varsity, moved up to number two. Lifford also had an easy time, cruising by Tech...