Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While the Los Angeles Police Department has long relied on SWAT teams and helicopters for high-tech law enforcement, police departments in many other cities are turning to methods that are decidedly low tech. Their weapons of choice? A good pair of walking shoes and a gift for small talk, coupled with rigorous training in the basics of policing...
...council urged Washington to increase federal research spending for nonmilitary technologies. The U.S. government spends two-thirds of its research money on defense and devotes just 0.2% to commercial high tech, in contrast to 5% spent by Japan and 15% by Germany...
...awesome performance of U.S. missiles and fighter planes in the gulf war seemed a reassurance of America's technological prowess. But an alarming report last week by the nonprofit Council on Competitiveness raises new questions about the nation's high-tech health. The council examined 94 critical technologies and found the U.S. leading the world or holding its own in 61 and trailing in 33 others. While America remains strong in biotechnology, artificial intelligence and aerospace, it is falling behind or losing in lasers, computer chips and robotics...
...decades after their successful revolutions, both communist giants built massive ground forces equipped with heavy tanks and artillery. Since the 1970s, their military leaders have also given lip service to the need for lighter, faster forces and high-tech weapons. Partly out of bureaucratic inertia and largely because their economies were not up to the task, neither country actually moved into the modern military age of microelectronics. "People talk as if the Soviets haven't done their best, and have to do better," says Stephen Meyer, a military expert at M.I.T. "The point is, their best wasn't good enough...
...fraud was uncovered when a high-tech deep-sea search found the scrap metal and concluded that the Lucona had been deliberately scuttled. Two former government ministers were forced to resign after being accused of involvement in the scandal. Proksch plans to appeal...