Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...activities at the new parks, the biggest draw is miniature golf. The high-tech courses, which boast indigo-tinted waterfalls and animated jungle creatures, are a far cry from the concrete dinosaurs and creaky windmills that made these kitschy creations an icon of America's vacation landscape. Not bad for a pastime that was pooh-poohed during the 1920s as "nitwit golf...
...paper currency its first new look in 65 years. Larger portraits, color-shifting ink that goes from green to gold depending on the viewing angle, computer-designed interactive patterns that turn wavy when copied, and machine-detectable fibers embedded in the paper are just a few of the high- tech tricks intended to foil counterfeiters. First candidate for the makeover is the $100 bill, now the easiest to copy...
Automated teller machines have been particularly lucrative. ATMS were once touted as free high-tech conveniences, but a joint study by the Consumer Federation and uspirg found that customers now pay 95 cents on average each time they use a local ATM system and $1.10 for each use of a national network. And because ATMS require neither salaries nor benefits, most of those fees flow straight to the bottom line; another Consumer Federation survey estimated that banks typically reap 78 cents in profit for every $1 they charge to use the machines. Some go so far as to levy...
Every few weeks a sleek white ship sails from Japan to the North Korean port of Wonsan. On board are scores of Koreans eager to visit relatives -- along with a cargo that until recently often included such high-tech items as powerful computers and troves of cash, much of it exported in violation of Japanese law. Because Tokyo is reluctant to antagonize either the Kim Il Sung government or the North Koreans who live in Japan, customs officials had previously turned a blind...
...week, according to unofficial reports, the Italian police had shut down more than 60 computer bulletin boards and seized 120 computers, dozens of modems and more than 60,000 floppy disks. In their zeal, say the suspects, some officers of the Guardia di Finanza grabbed anything even remotely high-tech, including audiotapes, telephone-answering machines and multiplug electrical outlets...