Word: bixler
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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...
Prominent New England entries include Jane Slocum of Cambridge, ranked ninth nationally, and Agnes Bixler of Hanover, N.H., ranked seventh. Lee Howard, the Radcliffe squash team's top player, and coach Hewes are also entered...