Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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BINK! WHEN THE CALLAWAY GOLF CO.'S ULTRA-ENGINEERED Big Bertha driver connects with a common golf ball, the space-age sound is no auditory accident. Forget thwack or clink -- think of a high-performance computer firing up. The low- tech ball, meanwhile, has landed 20 to 30 yds. farther down the fairway than you expected. "I've played for 61 years," says 12-handicapper Thomas Dight, 76, a retired Long Island, New York, school superintendent who prowls the links all summer long in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire. "I've never seen anything like...
...Rockies' new ethos manages to combine the yearning for a simpler, rooted, front-porch way of life with the urban-bred, high-tech worldliness of computers and modems. When the San Francisco earthquake struck almost four years ago, computer writer T.C. Doyle, 30, and his wife Naomi, 29, picked up and moved to scenic -- and relatively sophisticated and pricey -- Park City, Utah. "We wanted a smaller town that was on the upswing," says Doyle. From there he now sends stories almost daily to his employer, Computer Reseller News, in Manhasset, New York. Bruce Tipple, 48, moved to the same mining...
...boom to the energy bust of the mid-'80s, which forced companies to downsize and the states -- notoriously overreliant on natural resources ever since the silver rushes of the 1870s and 1880s -- to diversify. Idaho also continued to help small companies grow larger while encouraging the new high-tech industries around Boise. Wyoming revived its moribund coal fields with the world's most highly automated mining processes. Colorado financed an ambitious drive to make Denver an international hub with a new $3 billion airport. Utah restructured its copper and steel mills and absorbed their laid-off workers into gleaming...
...storage locker. While kidnapping is still a relatively rare crime in the U.S., the number of cases investigated by the FBI last year jumped 23%, to 713 cases, 66 of them involving ransoms. The CEOs of big public corporations and entertainment celebrities have become increasingly cautious, installing high-tech security systems and hiring bodyguards. Nowadays, say security experts, the more tempting targets are the wealthy owners of small and medium-size private businesses -- people like Harvey Weinstein...
...officials were ecstatic about the results of the $300 million test. It was, declared one official, like "hitting a bullet with a bullet." Moreover, it was proof of the potential of Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative. It seemed to signal an important first step in building a high- tech astro-shield against nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles from the Soviet Union. A Wall Street Journal editorial proclaimed, STAR WARS WORKS...