Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unlike eighty percent of those high-school seniors who find fat envelopes from Byerly Hall in their mailboxes in May, I spurned my first offer of Harvard admission. I headed instead for the tech school two miles down the Charles...
Many economic observers and politicians fuel these beliefs by charging that foreigners invest in American companies--particularly high-tech, high-profit companies--and then ship either the jobs or the technology overseas, depending on how devious they are. Most of the jobs apparently come from bread-and-butter industries like auto-building. Most of the technology apparently comes from the electronics or weapons industry...
That kind of talk worries officials at the New York Stock Exchange; trading technology is advancing so rapidly that the Big Board could be bypassed by such new high-tech systems as the Arizona Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ and now Globex. The N.Y.S.E. petitioned the Securities and Exchange Commission to slow down, if not unplug, some of the networks. Says William Donaldson, chairman of the N.Y.S.E.: "To our competitors, we're the big monster; and it's fun to zap the monster...
...result, the SVR'S foreign tentacles are probing in many places. Earlier this year, Italian authorities rounded up 28 high-tech spies in what former President Francesco Cossiga called the largest Soviet network ever uncovered in Europe. Since the espionage arrests in Belgium, the Dutch government has expelled four Russians engaged in covert activity, while France, acting on a tip from the CIA, has uncovered five apparently unwitting accomplices to the Russian ring that operated out of Brussels...
Both stores feature high-tech diversions that make shopping there almost like visiting an amusement park. HMV's dungeonesque foyer boasts a television wall pulsing with non-stop videos. Inside you can listen to new albums on headsets. There's even an in-house dee-jay perched in an elevated glass "WHMV" booth at the back of the store. Tower rivals these delights with its touch-screen directories that instantly locate obscure titles. Recycling bins for CD cases and wrappers appease the ecologically-minded...