"The success of I.B.M. has been predicated on its ability to sell and service," said Mr. Meyer, not on any longstanding technological dominance.

Such plans will not fit within a reasonable budget - and not all are necessary - given America's existing technological dominance.

As the list suggests, the United States was not only subject to panics but also unusually crisis-prone compared with other advanced countries during the very years that it was establishing its economic and technological dominance.

They acquire, sustain and support the networked mission command solutions that bring technological dominance to present and future Warfighters.

In the golden age, 1950-73, we had it all - low-cost manufacturing, rising wages, technological dominance, a highly educated and motivated work force, a trade surplus.

The US must re-focus on education, specifically in the sciences, to ensure its technological dominance in the 21st century.

Last week Cyrix, a small, four-year-old Texas company, became the latest challenger to Intel's technological dominance of the $50 billion-a-year worldwide personal computer (PC) industry.

As with Sputnik in 1959, the American government saw the Japanese project as a challenge to its technological dominance.

Not everyone likes Apple's approach, but everyone certainly does acknowledge its technological and economic dominance.

The change is easy to understand: no longer protected by heavy tariffs or America's unchallenged technological dominance, domestic producers have looked for subtler barriers to imports.