Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...LOOKS AS TIMELESS as one from the Odyssey: billowing sails, hulls slicing through salt spray, sunburned crewmen pulling at ropes and squinting into wind. But if the image is classic, the men competing in the America's Cup final this week know victory will owe more to expensive high-tech wizardry than to the art of ancient mariners. "National technology is at the heart of the competition," says John Marshall, boatbuilder and head of the Partnership for America's Cup Technology. "It's been a technology contest since 1851." That year a newly designed schooner called America launched the quadrennial...
According to Telow, the Coop has maintained advertising in campus publications to target student consumers. "We can get lost in The Globe but we can almost dominate The Crimson or the [MIT] Tech," Telow said...
...regardless of what he stands for. An emotionally wrenching case in point: the widespread support among Southern blacks for Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas after his elevation to the high court was threatened by Anita Hill's sexual-harassment charges. Thomas claimed he was being subjected to a "high-tech lynching," a phrase designed to appeal to the racial sensitivities of blacks and white guilt...
...speed and maneuverability make them crankier, forcing sailing skills to the forefront as a welcome counterpoint to the increasing dominance of technology. Nobody has demonstrated those skills more than "comeback king" Conner. But after surviving the defender semifinals in a last-minute face-off with Koch's high- tech America 3 earlier this month, Conner's Stars & Stripes was trailing Koch's craft 4 to 2 in a best-of-13 final at the end of last week. In the challenger series, to decide which foreign entry will face the Americans on May 9, the New Zealand enjoyed...
...PLACE IS CHOCKABLOCK with fountains, almost all of them officially described as new-age outdoor-air-conditioning systems. Water gushes and gurgles almost everywhere. Architect Nicholas Grimshaw's pavilion for the United Kingdom, a fine, robust example of the high-tech style at which the British excel, is the grandest, sleekest Expo aquatecture of all: the whole plate-glass facade, 60 ft. high and 235 ft. long, is a waterfall. A lovely, quirkier glass-wall waterfall, the work of the New York architecture firm SITE, defines a promenade along one of the Expo avenues. For almost a quarter- mile...