Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans still suffer the damage inflicted by centuries of racism. Yet blatant group preferences, such as manipulating test scores, impose their own costs. They fuel a backlash against other reforms, create doubts about individual achievements and can subtly discourage minorities from striving for their full potential. In the high-tech age, tests are a fact of life. Rather than fudge outcomes, society must now face the challenge of equipping everyone to pass them...
That oldies echo in your ears is the result of a high-tech technique, digital sampling, that is turning pop music on its ear. Besides creating some unexpected new sounds, sampling is raising serious legal and ethical issues. "We're talking here about the ultimate instrument," says Mike Edwards, founder and lead singer of the British neopsychedelic group Jesus Jones. "I think that sampling's effect on music cannot be calculated...
...Seal stores are large and dramatic (3,900 sq. ft. on average), and the merchandise is displayed all the way up to the ceiling on high-tech impressionistic wire mannequins bathed in track lighting. Tops, pants, shorts and jackets are often clustered in the same spot for customers who can't match clothes on their own. Many stores also boast a 25-screen video wall from which computer-controlled rock videos play perpetually. By using computers, boasts marketing director Lesly Martin, "our buyers were actually able to track the day neon beachwear died." Radical...
...Where's Bob Strauss?" one attendee inquired. Strauss, once the Democratic National Committee chairman, was more recently the middleman who raked off an $8 million fee for setting up the purchase of an American movie company by a Japanese high-tech firm -- just the kind of deal Democrats used to excoriate. "Probably in Japan," came the answer. A couple of wags took estimates on the cost of Clifford's flawless Glen plaid suit. High estimate...
...With the advent of sophisticated color copiers, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is nervous about high-tech counterfeiting. Last year alone, officials seized $66 million in bogus money. To foil would-be counterfeiters, the bureau is gearing up to print new bills, the first major change in U.S. paper currency since...