Word: techs
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...saga of TPA is a glaring example of what some experts believe is a pervasive problem in American health care: how high-pressure marketing tactics by drug companies combine with the lure of a glamorous high-tech product to persuade doctors to adopt the latest medication, even when it offers no clear advantage. "Doctors are enamored of new technologies," says Dr. Stephen Schondelmeyer, director of the Pharmaceutical Economics Research Institute at Purdue University. "We have this attraction to 'new is better,' even though that is not always true...
...budget crunch that makes it less willing than ever to help universities expand or update their scientific infrastructure. "The National Science Foundation and others are saying, 'If we've got to set priorities, we'd better do the substance,' " says Joseph Gilmour, vice president for strategic planning at Georgia Tech...
Such overwhelming success, in fact, may be unrepeatable. The U.S. and its partners are unlikely to face soon, or ever, another combination of a cause so clear that it unites a mighty coalition; ideal terrain for high-tech warfare; a dispirited and war-weary enemy army; an almost total lack of opposition in the air; and an adversary, Saddam, who made nearly every blunder in the book...
...more basic source of the region's volatility, however, is its huge oversupply of arms. Israel has demanded that Iraq be stripped of all missiles and nonconventional weapons, but Baghdad is hardly the only possessor of a potent arsenal. Israel and Saudi Arabia have each obtained new high-tech weaponry during the war, and Syria, concerned that the strategic balance has tipped farther in Israel's direction, may seek to accelerate its military program...
...They point out that Japan's laws ban the export of military weapons and equipment to manufacture arms. The terms are broadly defined. Under these rules, Japanese firms cannot even export equipment to remove mines (although in the past some companies, feeling less constrained, haven't minded selling high-tech equipment with potential military applications to the Soviet Union). "Japan was bashed for only providing money for the war and not participating directly," says Masao Takemoto, a spokesman for electronics giant Mitsubishi. "But in the reconstruction period we will also be under restrictions...