Word: techs
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...members were part of Joy Division, an English quartet whose name belied its obsession with the darker side of reality. When Joy Division's leader, Ian Curtis, committed suicide in 1980, the survivors formed New Order, which quickly established its trademark mix of emotionally opaque lyrics, high-tech smarts and hypnotic dance grooves...
...major obstacle to controlling the spread of these weapons is that even medium-size countries can build them using domestic industries and imported "dual-use" equipment -- high-tech items that have civilian as well as military applications. Last year, says Kenneth Timmerman, a specialist in Middle Eastern security issues, Germany sold a total of $5 billion worth of goods to Iran. Japan sold Tehran nearly $3 billion worth and the U.S. shipped almost $1 billion. Much of the trade involved "dual use" items...
Instead, she argues, the U.S. must employ federal subsidies and assertive trade policies to promote the most promising high-tech industries, such as aerospace and electronics, and defend them from subsidized foreign competition. "Our approach is to say to our trading partners, 'If you continue to subsidize your high-tech industries, we will do the same,' " she says. The Clinton Administration also "will demand that our trading partners open their markets to our exports as ours are open to them . . . That's a lot more constructive than saying, 'We're going to close our markets to your products...
This is not the first time a successful high-tech company has tried to fully automate the contemporary office. Xerox tried during the 1960s and '70s using networks of word processors, printers, telephones and copiers. After losing a bundle, a humbled Xerox staged a full retreat back to paper and ink, and now calls itself "the Document Company." Another office-of-the-future hopeful, Wang Laboratories, recently placed a huge bet on expensive paper-scanning and imaging systems to stamp out paper. Customers balked, Wang abandoned the office-equipment business and filed for bankruptcy last year. IBM also tried...
...moguls aren't Luddites. MCA Music chairman Al Teller, for instance, says MCA will have its own one-at-a-time CD-system prototype 18 months from now. And Sid Ganis, president of marketing and distribution for Sony's Columbia Pictures, can hardly afford to be anti-high-tech. "At Sony the grand plan is combining software and hardware," he says. "On the other hand, there is a real emotional magic to going to the movies with hundreds of other people...