Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...constant presence of the tech crew on stage is an interesting addition in the early scenes of the show. Sitting in the audience, they supply sound effects by playing wind chimes, blowing in bottles and whispering. The techies reappear later as the roving theater troop, blurring the lines between cast and crew...
...Mulford's Pirandellian-like staging, after drawing attention to the artificial nature of theater, eventually becomes gratuitous, most notably when members of the tech crew walk across the stage in mid-scene...
...stores ranging from Saks Fifth Avenue to Neiman Marcus have suffered from poor business as customers flock to discounters and back- to-basics stores, notably the Limited, the Gap, Wal-Mart and K Mart. The 75-store Sharper Image chain, which made its reputation in the '80s with high- tech gadgets, has been blurring its image to include more low-cost, practical goods. Example: a $19.95 aluminum-can crusher for recyclers...
...Hellfire missile? So, too, are the U.S. military services, the Bush Administration, the Congress -- and a host of defense contractors eager to turn the war-born popularity of their fearsome weapons into a new splurge of arms spending and big profits. Such is the congressional passion for these high-tech marvels that a new "war dividend" of great value to many people -- but decidedly not to the beleaguered American taxpayer -- is being doled out on Capitol Hill...
China is even further behind in the high-tech stakes. A commentator in the . military's Liberation Army Daily wrote of the gulf conflict, "We are seeing the warfare of the 21st century fought on the battlefield of today." The gulf battles were the antithesis of Mao Zedong's theories, which insisted that a "people's war" of massed armies would defeat any aggressor. Beijing began thinking about modernization recently, but with a defense budget of only $6.16 billion last year, it is hard pressed to deliver much more than basic equipment to its army of 3 million...