Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...starting to rearrange where Americans live. In Massachusetts an estimated 18,000 more people fled the state than moved into it this year as unemployment climbed past 6%. Some favored destinations: California, Texas and Florida. Nearly a quarter of the state's 93,000 layoffs occurred in such high-tech companies as Digital Equipment and Data General, which have been caught by the double whammy of economic stagnation and technological changes that passed them...
Walk This Way. To help soldiers find their way in the shifting sands, the Air Force is distributing thousands of high-tech locating devices. The civilian receivers (typical cost: $3,500, compared with $20,000 for the military version) read encrypted signals from 18 satellites and are usually accurate to within 350 ft. The Air Force has unscrambled those signals to allow the locators to give position readings accurate to within...
...peace, there might be other ways to face down a pint-size Third World warrior state than with massive force of arms. Nor have we begun to see what an anachronism we are in danger of becoming: a warrior nation in a world that pines for peace, a high- tech state with the values of a warrior band...
...Dugan's biggest sin, in Cheney's eyes, was references to Israel's contribution to the U.S. military effort. Dugan said that Israel had supplied the U.S. with its latest high-tech, superaccurate missiles and that based on Jerusalem's advice that Saddam is a "one-man show," the U.S. had devised a plan to decapitate the Iraqi leadership -- beginning with Saddam, his family, his personal guard and his mistress. Such targeting, Cheney was quick to point out, not only is political dynamite but also "is potentially a violation" of a 1981 Executive Order signed by President Ronald Reagan flatly...
District Police officers, for example, have written in their contract that they will never be taken to D.C. General in the case of a trauma emergency. If an officer and an innocent bystander get shot, the officer is helicoptered to a high-tech facility in Virginia, and the city resident goes to D.C. General...