Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computer industry for Kleinwort Benson in Tokyo: "You can more or less expect France to come out and accuse Britain of bringing another Japanese Trojan horse into Europe." Analysts anticipate a heated debate about whether the Community should revoke ICL's rights to participate in E.C.-sponsored high-tech research projects now that the computer maker answers to a Japanese firm...
Nearly 30 years ago, IBM revolutionized the office workplace when it introduced the Selectric electric typewriter. The premier symbol of the high- tech office of the future, the Selectric used plug-in cartridges, instead of messy ink ribbons, and replaced the sliding carriage and keys with a rotating typing golf ball. Since 1961, IBM has sold some 13 million Selectrics, making it the best-selling machine in the company's 76-year history...
Yesterday's high tech, though, is today's low tech. The Selectric lost much of its luster in recent years when secretaries switched to word processors and personal computers. As a result, IBM is putting its typewriter business on the auction block. The most prominently mentioned buyer: Clayton & Dubilier, an investment firm. Says Kenneth Camarro, an office-automation consultant: "IBM has read the writing on the wall." And the writing didn't come from a Selectric...
...that the overwhelming symptoms of decline in modern America are nothing more than a short lived empire slowly disintegrating from the inside and that this is a normal process in the evolution of empires? Or are America's problems simply the result of the complexity of the modern hi-tech information crazed world to which every nation is subject...
...from 32 American and Canadian colleges and universities, the innovative cars, capable of reaching speeds of up to 113 k.p.h. (70 m.p.h.), are following an 11-day, 2,639-km (1,640-mile) course that began in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., and will pass through eight states. The high-tech Soap Box Derby is scheduled to finish this week at the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Mich., outside Detroit. (In case of extended rain, the race may be delayed.) According to the < contest's sponsors -- GM, the Department of Energy and the Society of Automotive Engineers -- the race...