Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...HIGH-TECH AID FOR BOSNIA...
Fearing that the Serbs may step up their assaults on Muslims, the Pentagon is rushing high-tech surveillance equipment to Bosnia. Several unmanned aerial vehicles -- drones that can be used for reconnaissance over trouble spots without risking planes and crews -- will be put at the disposal of U.N. forces...
...Frank-and-Dino Rat Pack days of the '50s and '60s -- the tourist inflow has nearly doubled over the past decade, and the area remains among America's fastest growing -- the hypereclectic 24-hour-a-day fantasy-themed party machine no longer seems so very exotic or extreme. High-tech spectacle, convenience, classlessness, loose money, a Nikes-and-T-shirt dress code: that's why immigrants flock to the U.S.; that's why some 20 million Americans (and 2 million foreigners) went to Vegas in 1992. "Las Vegas exists because it is a perfect reflection of America," says Steve Wynn...
...most tellingly, many people who worked under his jurisdiction: he raised no money for the museum; he bullied and intimidated museum staff; he curbed free speech by forbidding museum employees to speak about the museum without his approval; and he violated their right to privacy by hi-tech scavenging for mail not addressed...
...thoroughly proven electronics and other devices, figuring that a single failure could endanger an entire satellite full of instruments. That is precisely what engineers think happened to the Mars Observer last summer, when a defective transistor evidently killed a $1 billion space probe. With only a few high-tech instruments per satellite, any failures would affect only a small piece of the program...