Word: allene
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...software system to machines that run Unix and DOS. "We didn't want AT&T's computer mess dumped on us then, and we don't want it now," says Charles Exley, NCR's chief executive. In discussions last week with AT&T's chief executive, Robert Allen, Exley warned of the history of failed computer marriages, such as Sperry and Burroughs or IBM and Rolm: "The industry graveyard is littered with mergers that have been outright calamities, and there is no reason to believe this one will be any different...
...Allen's task is to convince the NCR chief that this acquisition would not become another tale from the crypt. Although Exley has threatened to resign if "AT&T succeeds in shooting its way into NCR," analysts think he can be persuaded by a higher price. NCR has indicated a willingness to submit, but at $125 a share (for a $8.5 billion total) rather than the $90 offered by AT&T. Wall Street observers think the two sides will settle at around $105 a share. For its part, AT&T refuses to back down. In a letter to Exley, Allen...
...disturbing signs. Meanwhile, managers at NASA who had responsibility for the Hubble project paid little attention to the details of the telescope's construction. "There were at least three cases where there was clear evidence that a problem had developed, and it was missed all three times," said Lew Allen, the director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the head of the six-member investigating committee that wrote the Hubble report...
...achieve the exacting specifications for the mirror, Perkin-Elmer used an optics template, a tubular array of smaller mirrors and lenses linked by connecting rods, to guide the grinding and polishing processes. When the Allen committee tested this template assembly, it found that there was a critical error of 1.3 mm (0.05 in.) in the placement of the template's components. The Hubble mirror was carefully fashioned to match exactly this error in the template...
Hector I. Colon, 19, of 70 Bishop Allen Dr. in Cambridge, arrived at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) at 10:45 p.m. in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the right of his face, said Ruth Stokes, a clerical chargeperson...