Word: techs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wasn't just older, cheaper planes that won over Kosovo. The real star of the show was a new but very cheap bomb. While the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) is a pretty low-tech weapon, its satellite-guided tail fins let a plane at any altitude drop it right on target through clouds, smoke or darkness. At about $20,000 a pop, it's far cheaper than the $1 million cruise missile that has been the precision-guided weapon of choice for the past decade. "Once you get the air defenses suppressed, you can just fly over and puke...
...friends asked themselves three years ago. Sick of sitting on the sidelines of a raging bull market, watching individual stocks skyrocket as their mutual funds crawled along, Taylor's crew decided to take matters into their own hands. Pooling assets, they chose a diversified portfolio of tech, pharmaceutical and manufacturing stocks and have enjoyed 30% annual returns ever since. "We got tired of seeing fund managers getting rich and fees getting paid," says Taylor. "Mutual funds are for people who want to put their money into the market and just forget about...
Pirates tracks the rivalry between twin iconic weirdos: Jobs and Gates, temperamental opposites who shadow each other from their early days on the tech-conference fringe to the top of the NASDAQ charts. But the movie's focus is primarily on the turbulent Jobs, an adopted child who spends his life creating, and then rejecting, alternative identities, in true '60s seeker style. "One of the things that most fascinates me about him is his ability to blend Eastern philosophy with Western business techniques," says ER's Noah Wyle, who took the role after watching the PBS documentary Triumph...
Bush chose Harvard over other schools such as the Georgia Tech, The Naval Academy, Dartmouth and Brown because "it is Harvard" and because he likes Boston and has relatives in the area. He says his high school generally does not send students to Harvard...
...doesn't mean an inevitable cold war with the U.S. The possibility of a world held hostage by the threat of mutual assured destruction is still far away. But no one expects China to put its military ambitions aside anytime soon. In fact, as the country matures, its high-tech military hopes may grow as well. If the Cox report is even partly accurate, China has data that will make it much easier to turn those hopes to reality...