Word: techs
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...sold to General Motors, last November bagged a glittering international prize: a $1.5 billion, 10-year contract to overhaul and then manage the computer network of Inland Revenue, the British government's main tax-collecting agency. Again it was a case of American firms' specializing in a particular high-tech field. Other countries' firms may provide tough competition in making computer hardware and software, but nobody matches the Americans at the fine art of tying computers together into networks that do everything from running automated factories to sending out medical bills. On the Inland Revenue contract, for example, EDS' competition...
There is another side to the overseas-success story. For all the triumphs of Compaq, Intel and other companies, Japan still dominates many high-tech fields. Its companies, for example, control 95% of the flat-screen-display market, a key area of computer technology, and Asian companies have pushed the U.S. out of the disk-drive business. At the same time, U.S. competitiveness has been vastly enhanced by a trend that could be reversed at a moment's notice -- the cheapening of the exchange value of the dollar, which lowers the price of American goods to foreign buyers. Says General...
...must import such huge quantities of raw products, from coffee and bananas to crude oil, that it either cannot produce at all or not in the quantities it needs. The great fear of a few years ago was that foreign rivals would also take over manufacturing businesses, particularly high-tech firms, and reduce the U.S. work force to hamburger flipping. That fear is pretty much gone...
Texas A&M 23, Texas Tech...
...Louisiana 13, Louisiana Tech...