Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coaching emphasize virtuosity in what might be called a can-you-top-this derby. Violette Verdy, an elegant Paris Opara ballerina who came to City Ballet in the '50s and is now a teaching associate, ponders the differences between her own, gentler dance culture and the harder, high-tech world in which this generation must work. "We live now under so many pressures. This is a time of technique. Speed becomes violence; energy becomes stridency...
...coffeehouse cultures is located at 36 Church Street; just follow your nose to the Border, and then look next door. Cybersmith founder Marshall Smith, whose previous successes include Videosmith and Learningsmith, says he aims to "introduce people to new technology...in an atmosphere that isn't totally high tech" His store will offer three main services; access to the Internet, the latest in CD-ROM equipment and virtual reality encounters--all while sipping cappuccino and nibbling...
Industry executives who not long ago stubbornly fought the federal imposition of such now widely accepted technical items as seat belts, air bags and emission controls are taking the lead in pushing high-tech innovation. The auto industry and its suppliers are spending $24 billion a year between them in advanced engineering and electronic research-more than a quarter of the nation's entire annual $90 billion research-and-development expenditures...
...insistence, the Tech manager backed me up when I stepped across the hall to the TPC counter and demanded a new computer: he explained to the TPC guy that they had been unable to fix my machine. I added that I wanted a new one delivered to my office within tow days. The TPC guy was outraged: they didn't do personal deliveries. Luckily, I was able to speak directly with TPC's Distribution Manager, who saw to it that a new computer was delivered...
...Then, when I went to print, the screen froze up! I popped out the card and everything was OK: so the card had been the culprit all along. It had been wholly unnecessary for TPC to give me a new computer . And my original machine's ' three weeks at Tech Services had been a total waste of time: they completely rebuilt it but never thought to test it without the Farallon "Ether Mac" card. Two different copies of this card have proven incompatible with my two Performas, a computer model for which it is designated...