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...marketplace is full of ailing companies. Gavilan Computer in Campbell raised $23.9 million in venture capital two years ago to help launch its first product, a 9-lb. lap-size computer, but was slow to develop an improved model. It has laid off 210 of its 280 workers, and is now looking for additional capital. Convergent Technologies has also stumbled over its portable. The Santa Clara firm introduced its lap-size WorkSlate a year ago to enthusiastic reviews. But the company could not make enough of these computers to satisfy the initial demand, and then ran into production snafus. After...
...striking tableau could be seen. At the defendant's table sat De Lorean, tall and handsome, boyish despite his 59 years, as smooth and sleek as the sports car he briefly manufactured. In the witness chair sat his key accuser, James Timothy Hoffman, 43, a hulking, 250-lb. convicted drug dealer and admitted perjurer whose latest job was as a professional informer, setting up his friends and acquaintances for Government stings. When the obese Hoffman appeared in the videotapes that were the chief evidence against De Lorean, he was almost always eating...
...government urged private industry to become involved in defense contracting. One firm that responded was Explosives Industrials Cardoen, a small company that was then producing explosives for use in mining. After developing an armored personnel carrier based on the 24.5-ton Swiss-made Mowag, Cardoen started building a 500-lb. cluster bomb. Before reaching the ground, it releases up to 300 bomblets that can cover an area the size of ten football fields...
...Side and in the Sears Tower. The labs were started in 1911 with a single chemist, but have evolved into a full-fledged testing organization that employs 138 engineers and technicians who run evaluations on 10,000 products annually. Mattresses are rolled over 100,000 times with a 225-lb. wooden cylinder. Leather boots spend hours dunked in pools of water or strapped to automatic walking machines. Toilets are flushed 100,000 times-once a minute, day and night-to assure dependability. Last year 2,239 products were field-tested...
...superfluous fat," a hair restorer and remedies for rheumatism, asthma, heart disease and an "opium and morphine habit." The bulk of the 1897 edition is devoted to the essentials of late-19th century life, at prices that today are pure nostalgia. Shoppers could find a 200-lb. barrel of corned beef for $9, a 35-lb. wooden pail of gumdrops at $1.65 and a dozen 5-lb. pails of strawberry jelly for $6. Clothing included men's wool worsted suits for $6.50 and ladies' "walking and bicycle suits" for $6.75, topped off by a "very stylish...