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Marc Andreessen might be surprised to hear it, but Doug Colbeth thinks the people over at Netscape are "very much Hollywood personalities." Colbeth is the president and ceo of Spyglass Inc., which directly competes with Netscape. Spyglass is not based in lush, sun-tinged California, but rather in Naperville, Illinois. Last June, when the company went public, management celebrated by taking the 54 employees to a minor-league baseball game (tickets: $2 apiece). "We're blue-collar high tech," Colbeth says...
WALTER MINNICK of Idaho, former CEO of TJ International Inc...
Smith, who is Chair of Harcourt General, Inc., was appointed to the Corporation...
...more haunted by the prospect of leaks from the aging arsenal. The first mainland incinerator was rushed into construction in 1989 with only 60% of the blueprint complete. Located in Tooele, Utah, home of the nation's largest chemical stockpile, the facility was built by EG&G Defense Materials Inc., under contract to the Army. But Utah residents are wary of the military after the atomic-testing scandal of the 1950s. "The firebricks blew up in the kiln at Johnston," says Steve Jones, a safety inspector who was fired by EG&G in 1994, after just three months...
Pentagon efforts to keep the number of U.S. troops in Bosnia below 20,000 are raising eyebrows on Capitol Hill. Lawmakers are discovering that an army of civilians, contracted privately, has been deployed to augment the G.I.s. Brown & Root Inc., a Houston engineering firm, will supervise Balkan workers on projects like building pipelines and sewerage systems and is prepared to undertake the solemn task of readying the bodies of U.S. fatalities for shipment home. The Army's increasing dependence on civilian help is leading penny pinchers to wonder whether it is still necessary to budget $7 billion annually...