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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bobsled competitions in the last four Olympic Games were mostly free of suspense. That's because the sleds, not the athletes, were the stars. Designed with the help of wind-tunnel testing and built of advanced composite materials, the sometimes secretly developed high-tech sleds enabled some teams to achieve a consistent advantage of a few crucial hundredths of a second. "If one person has a Ferrari and another has a Fiat, the Ferrari will win," says Ermanno Gardella, secretary of the International Bobsled Federation. "But if both have Volkswagens, the best driver will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 1992 Winter Olympics: Cutting Edges | 2/10/1992 | See Source »

Colleges of all stripes -- public and private, princely and proletarian -- are retrenching in an effort to stay afloat. Meanwhile, expenses are rising. A declining pool of 18-year-olds has forced schools into a pricey competition for students. The cost of high-tech equipment and high-profile professors continues to grow, along with such expenses as medical insurance. The cutbacks are causing alarm among faculty members and a furor among students, who are worried that schools will be unable to deliver on the educational promises made in their glossy catalogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Chill on Campus | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

Unfortunately for defense firms, the budget crunch is accompanied by a projected drop in foreign sales, traditionally a vital source of business. While prospective foreign buyers may have salivated over the performance of U.S. high-tech weapons in the gulf war, the Bush Administration has been urging arms control in hot spots like the Middle East. "The world is becoming a friendlier place," says Philip Friedman, an analyst for Morgan Stanley. America's struggling masters of war must thus adjust their sights both at home and abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Military Contractors: Dismantling the War Machine | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...senators, in its reliance on sacred geese (those feathered ancestors of our own pollsters and spin doctors) and in its submission to senile, deified Emperors controlled by astrologers and extravagant wives. A culture that has replaced gladiatorial games, as a means of pacifying the mob, with high-tech wars on television that cause immense slaughter and yet leave the Mesopotamian satraps in full power over their wretched subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fraying Of America | 2/3/1992 | See Source »

...course "support networks" support civilians as well, and all this high-tech bombing guarantees that not only military leaders but everyone "collocated" with them gets blown up, starved out, cut off and killed. This is the lie of "collateral damage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kill 'Em All & Let God Sort 'Em Out | 1/24/1992 | See Source »

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