Word: tapping
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Willing Workshops. Both Rollei and the Japanese firms seem likely to have increasing company in their new locations. All over the industrialized world, accelerating wage inflation is pushing manufacturers into new efforts to tap the vast pool of willing and cheap labor in poorer countries. They are farming out production of component parts, subassemblies and even finished products, sometimes for export to other areas but often for use back home. In the process they are not only cutting their own costs but speeding the industrialization of underdeveloped countries, some of which are coming to relish the role of workshops...
...President, Agnew, they mean nothing to me," Joannidi says. "All I know is I'm losing business." Joannidi's business comes from the Marines on weekend passes from nearby Camp Pendleton. When Nixon is in town, 1,000 fewer Marines get passes-allegedly the number kept on tap in case the President is attacked, even though the residents of San Clemente do not seem likely to rise in revolt any time soon. "Now I make $2,400 a weekend less than I did before," Joannidi claims. "This fall I'll hafta lay off three people...
...news. Klein also maintains that cartridge marketing plans and, in fact, cassette converter units are already 20 years out of date. The solution, he says, is cable TV (which perhaps 75% of Americans will have by 1980) hooked to a central computer switching station with hundreds of cassettes on tap. "I call it 'jukebox TV,' " says Klein. Klein leaves NBC this week to form a company to mesh computer retrieval, CATV and the cartridge. He calls the idea "the ultimate 20th century combination,'' and optimistically predicts that it could reach the market in ten years...
...trial. If a defendant thinks the Government has used forbidden tactics in developing its case against him, he can ask to see all the raw material in order to establish his right to have it thrown out-which occasionally has made prosecutors turn over to mob lawyers years of tap-recorded phone conversations...
...satisfy only 5% of the U.S.'s annual demand. The rest will continue to come from Texas, Louisiana, California?and foreign producers. Beyond that, there are other potential oil sources, although admittedly uncertain and still in the far future. Some experts envision a North American energy market that would tap Canada's vast, undeveloped supplies. When the world's oil wells are fully depleted, there will still be immense reserves locked away in tar sands and shale. By then, nuclear energy will help to supply the "highenergy society." All this does not mean that Alaskan oil is unnecessary...