Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Americans already baffled by their complex new phone bills and mystified by computers, the confrontation may seem like so much high-tech alphabet soup. But these new developments mean that AT&T and IBM are fighting to be first to provide all the equipment and services for transmitting, storing and processing information for the next century. It is a fragmented, turbulent but potentially rich market...
...immigrants, they are compiling an astonishing record of achievement. Asians are represented far beyond their population share at virtually every top-ranking university: their contingent in Harvard's freshman class has risen from 3.6% to 10.9% since 1976, and it currently stands at 18.6% at Berkeley, 18.7% at Cal Tech and 8.7% at Princeton. At Columbia, enrollment in the engineering school is more than 20% Asian. In this year's Westinghouse Science Talent Search, nine of the 40 semifinalists were Asians, as were three of the ten winners...
...that his brother-in-law required him to memorize one page of an English dictionary after school each day. More conventional teaching techniques are available throughout the U.S. in federally sponsored language programs. Those fortunate enough to have studied English at home can often make the transition easily. Cal Tech Senior Hojin Ahn, 24, a native South Korean, arrived in Los Angeles three years ago able to read and write English proficiently. Last year Ahn compiled a better-than-perfect 4.1 grade average, among the highest at Cal Tech, and was awarded a partial scholarship for his senior year...
...also sees signs that his adopted country may be catching up with him. "Rock videos very interesting," he says. "Some of them are getting so good they're scaring me." And he is sure that coming to the U.S. changed his career. "America give me access to high tech," he says. "Here I get a sense of what high-tech equipment can do to sensibility. American kids have moved from Sesame Street through The Electric Company to MTV. They can see things in a frame that European kids can't." Is this mutation good, bad or what...
...newest wave raises many questions: How many immigrants can the country absorb and at what rate? How much unskilled labor does a high-tech society need? Do illegals drain the economy or enrich it? Do newcomers gain their foothold at the expense of the poor and the black? Is it either possible or desirable to assimilate large numbers of immigrants from different races, languages and cultures? Will the advantages of diversity be outweighed by the dangers of separatism and conflict...