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Only 280 of these imperial vehicles are handmade each year in Milwaukee and anyone with $27,200 in cash and as loud a voice as Phyllis Diller's can have a new Ex in the driveway within four months...
...then joined another of his lawyers, Gene Reeves Jr., 47, in walking three blocks down Perry Street to the V and J Cafeteria. They were strolling back to the courthouse at 11:55 a.m. when there were two bursts of gunfire. Flynt toppled forward, face first, onto a concrete driveway, bullet holes in his abdomen. Reeves, struck in his arm and chest, staggered a few feet and collapsed on the sidewalk (he was later reported to be in satisfactory condition...
...valley are scrambling to snatch away their competitors' best engineers and designers. Says President Jerry Sanders of Advanced Micro Devices: "All a guy has to do here if he wants to change jobs is drive down the same street in the morning and turn in a different driveway." As billion-dollar chip makers like Texas Instruments and Motorola, which are based elsewhere, throw more of their weight into the fray, the smaller companies of the valley may ultimately be forced either to merge or sell out to larger firms. That could endanger the vitality of the valley. Explains Sanders...
Back in the ovens, the wafers are baked again in an atmosphere of gases loaded with "dopants." Like oil stains in a concrete driveway, these impurities soak into the underlying silicon. Since chips usually contain as many as ten layers, all these steps-"rusting," photomasking, etching, baking, etc.-must be repeated for each layer. Then the entire wafer is coated with an aluminum conductor, which also must be masked, etched and bathed in acid. Finally, an eagle-eyed computerized probe scans the wafer for defective circuitry and marks the bad chips in red. The wafer is then separated...
...procession of limousines crammed the White House driveway last Friday, as 50 of the most powerful leaders of U.S. business accepted an invitation for an off-the-record exchange of views with ranking Administration officials. Among them were the chiefs of Exxon, General Electric, Du Pont, Merrill Lynch, National Steel, B.F. Goodrich and Boeing. The Administration was engaged in one of the most ambitious public relations campaigns to be aimed at the business community since Lyndon Johnson's day. The goals: to build support for Carter's tax package and to reassure business leaders, who have been unimpressed...