Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...spent much of his interregnum visiting computer, cable and other high- tech firms, trying to scope out who would have the upper hand in the new information age. He also tried some restorative time off. In June he set out on a cross-country drive, renting a Chrysler convertible in Miami and wending his way along the Gulf Coast through towns like Pensacola and Biloxi. But the summer heat and stale motel air left him dehydrated, and by the time he reached Little Rock, he was running a 100 degrees fever...
That unusually broad experience led officials at the National Institutes of Health to pick Jacobs to head their new Office of Alternative Medicine. The office was created last year under pressure from a Congress alarmed by the soaring costs of high-tech healing and the frustrating fact that so many ailments -- AIDS, cancer, arthritis, back pain -- have yet to yield to standard medicine. In the breach, Americans have turned with growing enthusiasm to an array of unorthodox remedies, including hypnosis, biofeedback, homeopathy, acupuncture and herbs. According to the New England Journal of Medicine, a third of the population today consults...
...delirious all-night dancing in smoky, jam-packed warehouses. But unlike most techno music, Perverse is rather perverse about the electronic age: with lucid and ironic lyrics that lurk beneath the surface maelstrom, it examines politics, pop culture, love and hypocrisy in a world that has become overly high tech...
...analysts and George Bush were wrong. The Gulf War was a confidence-booster for the country's military establishment. It served as a playground on which the United States showed off its high-tech weapons. But the Gulf War did not test the mettle or iron-will of this country's leadership, nor did it help us to kick the "Vietnam syndrome...
With a minimum of props, the tech crew has created an effective set for differentiating locations. A large cloth wall painted with books represents the library setting. However, the wall rises, falls, bursts, unzips and reseals to denote changes of scene. Schwartz makes full use of this bit of ingenuity to keep the play visually interesting...