Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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IMPRESARIO CAMERON MACKINTOSH made his millions (150 or so of them, in dollar terms) producing musicals of high tech, high technique and high seriousness -- Miss Saigon, Les Miserables, The Phantom of the Opera and Cats. He was just out for a night on the town with friends in Britain when he saw a jumping, jiving cabaret revue. It could not have been further from Mackintosh's customary taste. He favors life-and-death storytelling; Five Guys Named Moe is a wisp of a tale about a drunken lowlife cleaning up his act and winning back his lady love with...
Theme park? Think bigger. Mickey Mouse's custodians have spent $4.4 billion on an all-weather wonderland comprising a high-tech retro-cute amusement park, six ambitious new hotels (containing 5,200 rooms), 50 restaurants, a convention center, a campground, an 18-hole golf course and a cluster of nightclubs. They also got one big political hotfoot...
...technology weapons also came under fire. Classified internal Pentagon reports suggested that the vaunted F-117A Stealth fighter scored 60% of the time, not 90%, and that only about half the 288 Tomahawk missiles fired actually hit their target, down from 85%. Even with these revised figures, the high-tech successes made the Desert Storm air campaign the most accurate in history...
...kinds of alliances with business. In St. Louis, Washington University and Monsanto Co. have linked up in biomedical research projects involving proteins and peptides, as part of a search for more sophisticated drugs. On the campus of the University of California, Irvine, Hitachi has built a high-tech research lab, which it shares with U.C.'s top-flight biochemistry department. Critics worry about the ethics of this cozy arrangement, despite strict conflict-of- interest rules drawn up by the university. "What forms of industrial cohabitation should a state-funded university permit?" asks Michael Schrage, a research affiliate at M.I.T...
...local talent pool offers more than enough depth to build global businesses. ALPNET, a translation company B.Y.U. started as a research project in 1980, has developed into a $26 million business with 250 employees in 22 offices around the globe. Because Salt Lake City has become a high-tech center as well, computer-aided translation comes naturally to many local workers. "It is a unique combination: a linguistically and culturally conscious society that is also computer literate," says ALPNET president Thomas Seal. Among the company's clients: Apple Computer, British Petroleum, NATO and Siemens. The U.S. Army recently called...