Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...High-tech businesses were attracted decades ago to Cape Canaveral, 40 miles away, and they are still coming. Today they are creating jobs in Orlando at a rate three times the national average. Patriot missiles, infrared sights for night warfare and other inventions of the Star Wars era are assembled only a few miles from the site where tourists board fantasy rocket rides based on George Lucas' Star Wars. Disney World has the Space Mountain roller coaster; Orlando has FreeFlight Zephyrhills, a firm that is experimenting with wind- tunnel technology to simulate a skydiving experience on the ground. Disney...
...acre theme park called Vedaland, scheduled to open in 1993. The Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the saffron-robed Indian guru who brought transcendental meditation to the world (and to the Beatles), has teamed up with magician Doug Henning to produce a spiritual equivalent of gourmet TV dinners, a high-tech, fakery-filled playground, ostensibly to help put man in harmony with nature. The 38 attractions will include a building that appears to levitate above a pond, a chariot ride inside the "molecular structure" of a rose and a journey over a fabricated rainbow. Naturally, there are unbelievers. Says Orlando Sentinel columnist...
There is no consensus on the best college player in the draft, but the top prospects are forwards Larry Johnson of UNLV, Billy Owens of Syracuse, Doug Smith of Missouri and Stacey Augmon of UNLV, center Dikembe Mutombo of Georgetown and guards Kenny Anderson of Georgia Tech and Steve Smith of Michigan State. Owens and Anderson are underclassmen...
...score large gains with more powerful and less expensive machines. Its once commanding lead in personal computers has shriveled from 46% to 23%. Big Blue has stumbled so badly in such markets as home computers, portables and telecommunications that security analysts have started to doubt the company's high-tech superiority...
...that America has patted itself on the back for its high-tech prowess in the Persian Gulf, the country faces an even more daunting technological challenge back home: how to make educational electronics achieve its potential. Today 2.7 million computers have been installed in the nation's 100,000 schools -- roughly 1 for every 16 students -- along with an avalanche of disk drives, modems, laser printers and videodisk players. Estimated cost: $4 billion a year. But experts say the impact of all this technology on the basic operation of most classrooms is practically nil. Effective and innovative uses of computers...