Word: lanza
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...just six years ago in New York City, L-3 last week announced $4 billion in 2002 sales, ranking it among the nation's top 10 defense contractors, just below such industry giants as Lockheed Martin and Boeing. L-3's fast start is widely credited to CEO Frank Lanza, 71, who was head of Loral Corp., maker of electronic warfare systems, when it was sold to Lockheed in 1996. With partner Robert La Penta, then a Loral executive, and financing from Lehman Bros., Lanza bought 10 Loral electronic-manufacturing divisions, glued them together, bulked up their research-and-development...
...when its technology enabled commanders at a base in, say, Tampa, Fla., to see real-time images of Afghan battlefields. Contracts soon multiplied. "The U.S. has plenty of firepower," says Kevin Landis, chief investment officer of Firsthand Funds, a tech-focused mutual-fund group in Silicon Valley. "But Frank Lanza tells them where to point it." L-3's military customers also include Canada and other NATO countries...
...Bullock's stylist, who was incredibly serious about her task of finding the actress something for her appearance on David Letterman's show. My referring to something as being "not Bullocky enough" was completely ignored. In fact, I was completely ignored--she'd deal only with the manager, Tiziana Lanza. This may have had to do with Lanza's knowing something about clothes...
...gave up, not having made one sale, got one rude remark or seen one woman in her underwear. Lanza told me I was a bit "uptight" and shouldn't "walk like a robot." I was starting to rethink my thesis about the salespeople being nicer than the customers...
...into a baby, argue that these primitive cells, which can turn into any kind of cell in the body, may hold the secret to cures for Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other diseases. "Of course, all society--from scientists to politicians--is against human reproductive cloning," asserts Dr. Robert Lanza, medical director of Advanced Cell Technology, a biotech firm in Worcester, Mass., that has led the way in cloning human embryos for stem-cell research. "No one wants to see 100 copies of Madonna or Michael Jordan. But it would be tragic if this outrage spills over into legitimate medical...