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...Hiram Walker, the Canadian distiller of Canadian Club and other liquors, just bought Manhattan Associates' new warehouse-management system. The company is convinced that the new system, which will cost about $650,000 over six months, will quickly pay for itself by improving the speed and accuracy with which orders move from the production line to shipping. Vice president for operations Dan DeMarco says, "You can't stop investing every time the economy looks like it's going to take a little downturn...
While the evidence was far less conclusive in 1991, when Motichka was diagnosed, many doctors already believed that less invasive treatments could be effective, and were advising their patients to consider that option. According to Motichka, her physician, Dr. Hiram Cody of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, recommended a mastectomy anyway...
...Hiram Bingham finds Machu Picchu, a 15th century Inca settlement high in the Peruvian Andes...
...verdicts in eight cases, including the conviction of Sun-Diamond Growers, a California raisin-and-nut cooperative, for, among other things, giving Espy luggage, meals and transportation. But even before his recent big losses, lawyers were complaining that Smaltz and his deputy Ted Greenberg have acted like wayward cowboys. Hiram Eastland, a lawyer representing former Espy aide Ron Blackley, says Smaltz's lawyers put Blackley's wife on the stand and tried to get her to testify against her husband despite the long-standing marital-privilege doctrine. He says they also hauled the aide's son out of college midterms...
Time for another fantasy retirement. Callaway sold his vineyard at a handsome profit to Hiram Walker & Sons, then bought a tiny golf-club company that made classic hickory-shafted wedges and putters. Under his tutelage, sales soon boomed. That was merely the tee-off. After introducing a popular line of neckless irons, he hit upon the idea of Big Bertha. Callaway replaced an existing graphite club head with a hollow stainless-steel design weighted most heavily around the edges. "Perimeter weighting" gave Bertha a sweet spot like that of an oversize tennis racquet. Since hollow clubs already on the market...