Word: avco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some entrepreneurs also complain that corporate giants are indifferent to small projects. Harris J. Bixler, president of Boston's Avco Everett Research Laboratory, contends that new products that promise tidy but unextravagant revenues go unsupported by Big Business even though the initial investment might be low. Says he: "Large companies could care less about the guy who has a $100,000 idea. They'd lose that in the paper-clip account." Such technological triumphs as Xerography and Polaroid film were developed by small innovator-entrepreneurs only after larger firms turned down the ideas...
...chairman, Owens-Illinois, Inc.; Donald N. Frey, chairman, Bell & Howell Co.; W.H. Krome George, chairman, Aluminum Co. of America; Henry J. Heinz II, chairman, H.J. Heinz Co.; William A. Hewitt, chairman, Deere & Co.; Barron Hilton, president, Hilton Hotels Corp.; Matina S. Horner, president, Radcliffe College; James R. Kerr, chairman, Avco Corp.; Robert E. Kirby, chairman, Westinghouse Electric Corp.; Walter J. Levy, president, W.J. Levy Consultants Corp.; Sol M. Linowitz, senior partner, Coudert Bros.; Stewart G. Long, vice president, Trans World Airlines, Inc.; Robert H. Malot, chairman, FMC Corp.; Hamish Maxwell, senior vice president, Philip Morris Inc.; Walter J. McNerney, president...
...much on the price of that company's stock as it used to be. Even in late 1976, the 30 stocks in the Dow Jones industrial average were selling at a price of 10.4 times earnings; the estimated price-earnings ratio for 1977 is less than eight. Avco, Chrysler and Rapid American shares are selling at only about three times earnings...
Increasingly this new skepticism is spreading even among professionals in the world of Sci-Tech. Indeed, it could be heard conspicuously last week as 4,200 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science gathered in Denver for their annual brainstorming. Arthur Kantrowitz, head of Avco Everett Research Laboratory Inc. in Everett, Mass., came plugging, once again, for the creation of a "science court" that might help sort out "facts from values" in controversies that have been multiplying in the atmosphere of question and dispute. One of the speakers in Denver, Science Historian June Goodfield, a visiting professor...
...must ultimately decide these issues are likely to be swayed by rhetoric rather than by scientific fact because there is no easy way to sort out the facts in arguments between scientists. Physicist Arthur Kantrowitz, 62, thinks that he has a solution to the dilemma. Kantrowitz, head of Avco Everett Research Laboratory in Everett, Mass., and one of the key engineers in the U.S. space program, would like to use the techniques of the courtroom to establish scientific fact. His idea: a court that would hear both sides in a scientific argument and render a public verdict on where...