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Article: High-Tech Explosion Transforms San Diego.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
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- October 30, 2000
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Oct. 29--SAN DIEGO--When U.S. Navy fighters fly over the Karl Strauss Brewery near Qualcomm Inc.'s campus, people automatically stop talking for a few deafening seconds.
Conversations at the popular lunch and after-hours spot instantly pick back up as the deafening noise fades.
To the high-tech workers who now dominate San Diego's labor force, those daily flights are reminders of the city's defense legacy.
San Diego residents, many of whom once relied directly or indirectly on the U.S. military for their livelihood, now consider it secondary to the high-tech industry. The din of jet engines is a small price to pay for living in the idyllic ...