Communications and Computers in the 21st Century: Hearing Before the Technology Policy Task Force of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session, June 25, 1987, المجلد 4

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الصفحة 75 - ... And I think it is really very difficult to answer your children's questions. I have answered my son the same way. He asked me, "You drink occasionally. You have cocktails before a party, or before dinner, or you go to a cocktail party. Why is it so terrible to have an occasional marihuana cigarette?" I am not sure that I know the answer. I know that A. Winkler once said that because somebody has leprosy, there is no reason to wish tetanus upon him. I think we can say that we don't think marihuana...
الصفحة 65 - This is based on the economic law that you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make him drink.
الصفحة 67 - We are about to get into a situation where the amount of money available for science and technology and basic research and development in government is going to be very, very limited. We are not going to have the luxury of deciding we want to do a super collider without figuring out where the money is coming from.
الصفحة 25 - Canada-US Beer War Gets Green Tinge," Financial Times, July 31, 1992; Hilary F. French, "Battle Over a Bottle," World Watch, March-April 1993; Hufbauer and Schott, op. cit., note 60. 83. David Wirth, Assistant Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law, Testimony before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, US House of Representatives, Washington, DC, September 30, 1992; Steve Chamovitz, 'Trade Negotiations and the Environment," International Environment Reporter, March...
الصفحة 60 - Because of things outside of their control such as the dumping problem, they have fallen behind in the ability to competitively manufacture technology drivers, very high volume products, and recognizing that, they feel and I think rightfully so that perhaps the only way that they can recover in time the ability to manufacture competitively is through a consortium.
الصفحة 40 - Second, factories are places where there is an awful lot of information flowing around and we have concentrated the application of computer technology to our factories. We deal with an awful lot of sophisticated ordering systems, billing systems, product configuration software, and that software is giving us a lot of leverage in doing the job much faster.
الصفحة 58 - I may first comment, we counted 30 major initiatives in universities on manufacturing somehow associated with universities either through separate corporations or actually within a university. In most of those initiatives, the industry has been contacted for support and is supporting. Those initiatives are focused on the technical side, on the research or the applied engineering. There were very few initiatives which link up what you call the marketing side.
الصفحة 39 - First, let me say that we have experience with work forces in other countries and we believe the American work force in manufacturing is as good as any in the world. Other countries are coming up but that is not a problem. It is highly trained and highly motivated.
الصفحة 39 - The key we have found in manufacturing is to overhaul our manufacturing systems in a way that would do the job differently. There is a lot of waste. There has been a lot of poor quality. We waste a lot of time as well as material.
الصفحة 60 - R&D for the new processes to make new kinds of devices of smaller scale as was the case either with IBM Corporation or AT&T or the major Japanese companies. So to some extent, the problem our industry faces in my personal opinion is the need for some industrial aggregation or sharing or partnership, some mechanism to pool the process technology interests of these large numbers of firms.

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