Competing in a global economy

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Successful competition in the global economy is vital to ensuring employment, national security, and living standards in Japan, West Germany and the US. Central to competition is the production of goods, but this is affected by the economic conditions, research and development (R&D) support and education of the workforce. Major factors in Japan's success are the heavy R&D funding provided by the Science and Technology Agency and Ministry of International Trade and Industry, lower capital costs than US or West Germany, and higher literacy and lower dropout rates than the US. Much of West Germany's R&D funding goes to pan-European programs, but close links between banking and industry push development, and the country's literacy and dropout rates are better than the US. The US leads in R&D funding and its universities are known for their creativity, but trade and industrial policy is fragmented.

United States, Japan, Industrial research, Economics, Education, Germany, West, Research and Development, Competition, Analysis, Germany, Funding

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High-tech dig for a dinosaur

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An array of high-tech tools and techniques are being applied to the search for the bones of a 37-meter-long dinosaur in the sandstone mesas of New Mexico. A diverse group of volunteers from Federal laboratories are using radar analysis, acoustic diffraction tomography and infrared spectroscopy to develop evidence of the remains of the reptile, dubbed seismosaurus by chief excavator David D. Gillete. Due to the accretion of magnetite in the bones, proton-procession magnetometry has yielded evidence of the pattern as derived from anomalies in the earth's magnetic field. The excavation provides an excellent opportunity for the practical testing of methods employed for other primary purposes by Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico, the Environmental Protection Agency and the US Army.

Medical laboratories, Technology, Archaeology, Radar, Magnetic fields, Electromagnetic radiation, Radar Systems, Acoustic Devices

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Multimedia repository

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Rhoda W Canter, associate librarian at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., heads the Working Group for the electronic Library of the Future, whose mandate it is to conceive and develop a 'library without walls.' The library maintains the largest stockpile of knowledge in the world, receiving copies of almost anything that is registered for copyright. Canter's job is to develop a way to make its information more accessible to the public. She is currently examining new technologies that would reduce the storage space required, help preserve the records and reduce the amount of incoming uncataloged items. Canter expects a large part of the library's collections to be on-line by the year 2000.

Methods, Management, Telecommunications systems, Automation, United States. Library of Congress, Information systems, Information storage and retrieval, Online, Upgrading, Access Methods, Canter, Rhoda W.

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