Hi Tech

Such is the success of the corporate tax rate in attracting hi-tech export-driven foreign direct investment that the devolved government north of the border in Belfast has been petitioning the UK Treasury, thus far unsuccessfully, to grant Northern Ireland special status and lower its rate to the same level as the south. ❋ Unknown (2012)

Meanwhile, the hi-tech outsourcing industry in India -- where the typical starting salary for an IT worker is less than $9,000 a year -- hired more than 850,000 people. ❋ Dan Rather (2011)

And science fiction actually inspires and stimulates our scientists and hi-tech engineers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Will they rein in the lazy or sadistic officers who have been deploying Tasers as a hi-tech cattle prod? ❋ Unknown (2009)

And over that time, annual exports from India's hi-tech outsourcing business has exploded from nearly $6 billion to over $50 billion. ❋ Dan Rather (2011)

There are plans to convert the old grain stores into a hi-tech winery and restore two ancient flint buildings. ❋ Will Lyons (2011)

But suggestions for just such a campaign in the US have thrown the spotlight on possible abuses at firms producing goods for hi-tech giant Apple, urging the public to think again about what happens at the other end of the production pipeline that leads to its swish, minimalist stores. ❋ Unknown (2012)

I suppose if you think that "Not since the advent of Christianity has the world witnessed so sweeping a change in the very fabric of human existence" as that ushered in by the "hi-tech revolution" -- an outburst of hyperbole even the loudest cheerleaders of that revolution themselves would no doubt hesitate to venture -- then the resort to the over-the-top analogies in which Kaufman indulges in this essay might seem justified. ❋ Unknown (2009)

However, governments are not necessarily always going to be allies of big hi-tech companies. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Nice MRAD you have there ... sure glad the Vancouver police wouldn't think of using this hi-tech weapon as a, you know, weapon. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bangalore, which is often called the Silicon Valley of India, is the center of the country's exploding hi-tech outsourcing industry. ❋ Dan Rather (2011)

What of low-tech solutions for hi-tech terrorists? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Why should they aspire to such hi-tech materialism? ❋ Unknown (2009)

The other setting is modern, following the descendants of these warriors, some of whom are now Italian drug smugglers, seeking to launder their money by investing in a hi-tech startup. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But the point is not to pass good laws, or even constitutional laws, but that the legislators be be seen to be DOING SOMETHING bout (gasp) CYBER-BULLYING, which, since it has “cyber” in it, will also show that the legislators are hip, and hi-tech. ❋ Unknown (2010)