In addition, some people see it as an instance of the problems that can arise when huge multiproduct companies try to absorb younger high-technology concerns.
The idea behind NetGuard is to create a national volunteer force, drawn initially from the nation's top high-technology concerns, that could mobilize quickly in the case of an emergency.
That increase, nourished by the state's Pacific Rim export industry and an expanding cluster of high-technology concerns, may have garnered it an extra Congressional seat, redistricting experts say.
But the United States manufacturers producing such displays are small high-technology concerns that account for little more than $50 million in sales, and they said yesterday that they were increasingly unable to meet aggressive Japanese competition.
The county's fortunes have also been aided by the continued growth of local companies, many of them high-technology concerns, said Dean J. Shapiro, an executive director at Insignia/ESG in Stamford, Conn ."There have also been several relocations within the county," he added, "and no major increases in supply.
For all the publicity surrounding the explosion of Internet start-ups and other high-technology concerns, the executive-recruiting industry has been quietly registering double-digit growth every year since 1992, according to Kennedy Information, a firm in Fitzwilliam, N.H., that publishes The Executive Recruiter News.
Stock prices mostly moved sideways -- and with little obvious pattern -- except that investors seemed to welcome the opportunity to lighten positions in high-technology concerns, while bidding up shares of household names, like Wal-Mart Stores, which leaped 5, to 58, the biggest positive contributor to the Dow and the S.& P. 500.
Mr. Golden attributed the decline in jobs to "an economic and social upheaval" involving the entire East and said that the job figures were "substantially the same" as when he took office because of new industries such as computer and high-technology concerns that are replacing defunct businesses.
Now the high-technology concern, with a suburban sprawl of 17 separate operations along a 20-mile corridor between its headquarters here and Danbury, is trying to bring its operations closer to home.
Purchase of costly technology that doesn't have a wider social benefit for the procedures that medical tourists demand has raised concerns about "crowding out" local consumption of high technology procedures [ 12].
In 2000, Nortel acquired 11 technology concerns that management said would fulfill its "vision of building the new, high-performance Internet".
