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...seeds of globalized R. and D. were planted decades earlier. "The old model of research was Bell Labs'," says Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Working on everything from basic science to prototypes of new products, centralized labs produced landmarks like the transistor, and every major corporation had such incubators. That changed over the past 20 years, as businesses started to shift their R.-and-D. money away from basic science in centralized labs (they would rely on universities for that) and toward design-and-development work done elsewhere--closer to production sites...
...seeds of globalized R&D were planted decades earlier. "The old model of research was Bell Labs'," says Ronil Hira, a professor of public policy at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Working on everything from basic science to prototypes of new products, centralized labs produced landmarks like the transistor, and every major corporation had such incubators. That changed over the past 20 years, as businesses started to shift their R&D money away from basic science in centralized labs (they would rely on universities for that) and toward design-and-development work done elsewhere?closer to production sites, by private...
...though Joe can sit in the storage closet rewiring his transistor radio all day and expect to maintain such a ranking. Radio Shack requires “a lot of training,” ensuring that all associates are qualified to challenge his Top 30 status. To simply get on the sales floor, one must pass four competency tests. Once an employee makes it to the floor, his supervisor can subject him to as many as 22 additional written examinations. According to Joe, a passing score “generally falls [within] the 80 to 90 percentile range...
...Broadway show--in a lovely vest-pocket production by George C. Wolfe--begins in a basement laundry room where Caroline (Tonya Pinkins) is trudging between the washing machine and the dryer to the accompaniment of a transistor radio. The blend of naturalism and lyricism is established right away: all the appliances are embodied by human beings (a Supremes-style trio, for example, provides the voice of the radio). The anthropomorphic devices don't stop there. The moon appears with an evening gown--bedecked soprano inside. The news of President Kennedy's assassination is announced by a blues-singing city...
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