Word: maker
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...This virus presents a plethora of targets because it's not a simple retrovirus. The more we know about it, the more complicated it is," Haseltine says. "It's like the difference between a cowboy's coffee not and an expresso maker: they both make coffee, but one comes with all those bells and whistles, so it's a lot easier to mess up. [The AIDS virus] comes with a lot of genetic baggage which might provide theraputic targets...
...Blue a run for its data. Burroughs has chosen as its partner-to-be a somewhat larger competitor, Sperry of New York City (fiscal 1986 sales: $5.7 billion). The two companies, which each have about 6% of the market, would together become the world's second largest computer maker. But a rather crucial problem has plagued the courtship from its start almost a year ago: Sperry wants none...
Sperry, started in 1933 as a maker of navigational equipment, treasures its independence. But going it alone could become increasingly difficult because of heated competition from Japan and an industry-wide slump in sales. Burroughs, facing the same problems, thinks the merger would allow the two companies to cut expenses by combining their purchasing, research and development, and other departments. More important, the combined bulk of the company could give reassurance to cautious computer buyers, who often prefer IBM simply because it stands so large and secure. Says Michael Geran, who studies the industry for E.F. Hutton: "The merger makes...
...powerfully evocative volume that gives dimension to the questions haunting every child deprived of his genealogy. It is part confession, part portrait of Britain, with its intimidating social strata, its cloaked poverty and strained respectability. And it is incontrovertible proof that Dickens, the great middle-class fantasist, the maker of grotesques and waifs and seekers, was a teller of more enduring truths than even he suspected...
Business at Steve's has doubled as well, according to ice cream maker Tom J. Lemere. He said that Lehze Flax '89, who "scooped alone for two hours yesterday, was "going crazy" because her co-worker hadn't shown up for work. "I'd like to help her, but we're almost out of ice cream," he said...