PC MAKERS PLAN PUSH ON EXPORTS.Byline: Jeannine Aversa Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. The computer industry is stepping up its efforts to persuade Congress to give it more freedom to export high-tech devices that maintain the privacy of computer messages. As part of a rare gathering of high-tech heavyweights, Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates (person) Bill Gates - William Henry Gates III, Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, which he co-founded in 1975 with Paul Allen. In 1994 Gates is a billionaire, worth $9.35b and Microsoft is worth about $27b. , Intel Chairman Andrew Grove
Dr. Andrew Stephen Grove (born 1936-09-02) is a Hungarian-American businessman. He participated in the founding of Intel and was key to the company's success. and eight other top computer executives are coming to Washington today to promote the software industry's contributions to the U.S. economy. According to a Business Software Alliance report, the software industry in 1996 generated $102.8 billion in sales, is the third-largest manufacturing sector in the United States and accounts for 619,000 jobs. The industry hopes to win liberalization lib·er·al·ize v. lib·er·al·ized, lib·er·al·iz·ing, lib·er·al·iz·es v.tr. To make liberal or more liberal: "Our standards of private conduct have been greatly liberalized . . . of U.S. export policy on data-scrambling devices, stronger copyright protections for property carried on the Internet and tougher enforcement of illegally copied software. |
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