Word: turnings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...researchers harbor similar fears about falling behind in a broad range of disciplines, from optical electronics to supercomputers. While the U.S. is still plowing ahead in pure science, American industry has fallen behind in the race to turn those advances into products that are reliable, reasonably priced and directed toward the needs of consumers. "America is probably the world's greatest innovator nation," says Robert White, president of the National Academy of Engineering, "but we don't have the ability to capture the benefits of those scientific discoveries." The risk is that the U.S. will lose its competitive advantage even...
...ruling was the latest turn in a dispute between Toyota and Ohio-based Mead Data Central, which since 1973 has offered a computerized legal- information service called Lexis. In December a federal judge in Manhattan upheld Mead's complaint that Lexus infringed on the Lexis trademark, and ordered Toyota to drop the name or pay Mead unspecified damages...
...been unending. After much maneuvering to get NBC to move its headquarters into what Trump originally called Television City, the network decided to stay in Rockefeller Center. Mayor Ed Koch rejected Trump's demands for a 20-year tax abatement, mocking the builder as "piggy, piggy, piggy." Trump in turn called Koch "incompetent" and "a moron," and threatens to help anyone who can unseat him in next fall's election. Citizens' groups on the West Side mounted major opposition, charging that the project would cast a deep shadow over a large area...
...former head of the Navy's ship- engineering section at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. Court papers describe a scheme in which California's Teledyne Industries paid Parkin and Lackner to obtain confidential information about Government procurement plans for a system to identify military aircraft. They in turn bribed Berlin to turn over the information. Parkin was also charged with paying Berlin to help New York's Hazeltine Corp. win a contract for a radar test device. Hazeltine and two of its executives pleaded guilty, as did a Teledyne employee. All are expected to testify against the other...
...company has ordered 50 midsize Airbus A320 jetliners and has taken options to acquire 50 more (total cost: $3.5 billion). Braniff chose the European-built planes partly because it wants its jets in a hurry. Half the planes were originally intended for cash-strapped Pan Am, which agreed to turn over its allotment to Braniff...