Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much for the self-righteousness of the Soviet line on Star Wars. Equally phony is Moscow's insistence, at Geneva and elsewhere, that the U.S. must agree to a ban not just on the testing and deployment of high-tech defenses but on research as well. Such a prohibition cannot be monitored and enforced, since spy satellites cannot see what is going on in laboratories on the other side...
...spreading faster than the fire storms set by the hero's explosive warheads. Hollywood megahits of summers past have flooded the market with such whimsical souvenirs as furry Gremlins and cuddly E.T.s. This year stores are stocking up with war paraphernalia: a $150 replica of Rambo's high-tech bow and arrow, Rambo knives and an assortment of toy guns, including a semiautomatic job that squirts a stream of water 10 ft. Youngsters will soon be able to pop Rambo vitamins, and New Yorkers can send a Rambogram, in which a Stallone look-alike will deliver a birthday message...
...city like Cambridge--where high-tech firms are gobbling up every inch of residential land and where the Archie Bunkers are gradually being pushed out by gentrification and the universities--being "neighborhood-oriented" is no easy task...
...some 400 dummy corporations in Europe to buy high-tech exports. The Soviets can rely on dozens of unscrupulous Western technobandits eager to cash in on the Kremlin's 500% markups by acting as middlemen. So numerous and willing are the technobandits that the Soviets are able to get three or four bids for a single transaction. A valuable piece of high-tech gadgetry can sail a circuitous route before it "jumps the wall," in Customs agents' parlance, to the East bloc. Last month U.S. marshals arrested Marino Pradetto, 46, the Italian operator of a West German electronics firm...
Defense contractors and high-tech firms have been notorious for lax security. At TRW, according to Boyce, "security was a joke." He and his co-workers used the code-destruction blender in TRW's ultrasecret "black vault" for mixing banana daiquiris. The Boyce scandal forced TRW to tighten up, and other firms as well are becoming more careful, contend authorities in Silicon Valley. The military is also lax. Says retired Admiral Clarence Hill: "When I was a sub commander in World War II, we never sent anything over four lines. Everything had to be coded and decoded by hand...