Word: techs
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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...