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...plant was built, Chaparral continued to send out employees in search of new production techniques. Last year the company exchanged a ten-man steel-melting crew for a similar group from a Japanese firm. For five weeks the Chaparral team studied the fine points of Japanese steelmaking. Says Gordon Forward, the company's president: "We want to beat them at their own productivity game...
...increased risk of abnormal blood clots and heart attacks. Depo-Provera can have less serious side effects that persist as long as it is in the bloodstream. Among them: weight gain, loss of sex drive, menstrual irregularities and, frequently, complete cessation of menstrual bleeding. According to Upjohn Research Manager Gordon Duncan, none of these problems are serious enough "to preclude its use as a contraceptive...
...three inventors, returned to his California home town, Palo Alto, to form his own company in the heart of what would become known as Silicon Valley. In Dallas, a young, aggressive maker of exploration gear for the oil industry, Texas Instruments, had already hired away another Bell Labs star, Gordon Teal, and was churning out the little gadgets. So were old-line tube makers such as General Electric, RCA, Sylvania and Raytheon. Much of their production went to the Pentagon, which found transistors ideal for a special computing task: the guidance of missiles...
...Helms, the gas levy was a tax-and-spend heresy. Aided by his North Carolina colleague John East and two obscure Republican freshmen, Donald Nickles of Oklahoma and Gordon Humphrey of New Hampshire, Helms tried to talk the bill to death. The willful clique was able to delay a final roll call until Thursday, two days before Christmas, hoping that by then enough members would have gone home to prevent the Senate from mustering a quorum...
...bill that will come before the state legislature this winter, calling it unenforceable. Says Earl: "I think there would be widespread disregard for a change to 21." Some educators dismiss raising the drinking age on the grounds that it fails to address the teen-age "attitude" problem. Says Faye Gordon, coordinator of a Brookline, Mass., project in the public school system that uses such devices as a quiz show called You Bet Your Beer to persuade teen-agers not to drink and drive: "These kids are drinking, and some are going to continue to drink even if you raise...