Word: techs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even those who support the Reagan program are becoming impatient with the budget process. Says Itek Corp. Chairman Robert Henderson, whose high-tech optical company anticipates "significant" first-quarter losses: "I didn't expect that we would knock out the deficit overnight, but I would like to see some indication that we are really working...
Even more worrisome is a growing lack of experienced workers in high-tech fields. Post-Viet Nam cutbacks in defense procurement sent enrollments in engineering schools plummeting. Though that is now changing, the number of graduates is still far too small to handle the projected demand. Executives at Eaton Corp.'s AIL Division frankly admit that their company will have to raid other electronics firms to find the engineers and computer experts needed to make controls for B-1 bombers. Asserts Economics Professor P.M. Scherer of Northwestern University: "This means either a bloody battle to divert engineers from other...
Harp and Ely's education in computers actually began when Bob Harp, a onetime engineer at the California Institute of Technology and an inveterate high-tech tinkerer on weekends, proposed that the two try to market a memory board, which stores information, that he had designed in his spare time. With $6,000 they bought inventory and printing materials and started assembling the boards in the Harp home. Styrofoam packing materials were stored in a downstairs shower; the dining room became a testing area...
Graham was the publisher of The Post from 1969 to 1979, a period during which the newspaper took the lead in the Watergate investigation. She will be the first commencement speaker other than an MIT president since 1964, the Tech Talk, a campus newspaper, reported recently...
Donnal M. Wulff, assistant professor at Brown University, said she applied for two different grants at Harvard in hopes of being given a chance to make one of the University's library of Indian studies. Wulff said she will tech a freshman seminar on musical and dramatic devotion in Bengal, and added she is "looking forward to having the time and the facilities for research...