Word: techs
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TIME: What's your prognosis for the tech industry overall...
ENGIBOUS: We're entering an era where an average person will have multiple electronic devices. The digitization of content is allowing all those electronic devices to be connected and share information. Add to that the large number of Asians gaining purchasing power, and arguably the tech industry has perhaps the best outlook of any large industry. Cell-phone and handheld consumer electronics are--and will continue to be--the primary drivers of electronic growth...
...unconventional thinking that has turned greater Nagoya (pop. 7.2 million) into Japan's most vibrant region. While the rest of the country wheezes in and out of the economic recovery room, Aichi prefecture has become Japan's most reliable and energetic commercial engine. Specializing in high-value, high-tech manufacturing, Aichi has posted one of the top economic growth rates in the nation in recent years. It boasts one of the lowest unemployment rates, the second highest household income, and the fastest rising property values-and that economic muscle is pumping a boom in construction, retailing, fashion and plain...
...human-rights abuses; the new Chinese "antisecession" law authorizing war if Taiwan edges towards independence, which drew hundreds of thousands of protesters onto the streets of Taipei late last week; and intense pressure from Washington-which fears it might one day be on the receiving end of high-tech weapons in the Taiwan Strait-led several E.U. members to sidle away from a deal to lift the embargo by June...
...latter-day Santa Claus." RONALD ROSS, Texas Tech University basketball player, praising his famously irascible coach, Bobby Knight. Texas Tech was later eliminated from the U.S. collegiate "Sweet 16" in a game in which Knight shouted in Ross' face and swatted his behind after bad plays