Word: maker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attack, Apple President John Sculley says: "We've got to make Mac an industry milestone in the next hundred days. If we don't get it together in 1984, Apple is going to be just another personal-computer company." Concurs John Roach, chairman of Tandy, the maker of Radio Shack computers: "If Mac doesn't take off, Apple has to watch...
...resolved with a sock to the jaw. From French films one has come to expect delicacy, grace, comradely tenderness, a ruminative intelligence. Their directors seem to inhabit an exalted sorority where girlish high spirits, sage whispers and rueful endearments reverberate in the hallways. So leave it to French Film Maker Diane Kurys to devise, in Entre Nous, a bittersweet domestic epic that reconciles feminism with femininity...
...stake in Diasonics is worth $30 million. He helped finance Monoclonal Antibodies, which sells pregnancy-testing kits and hopes to market a product that will predict the timing of ovulation. Noyce has also suffered a few setbacks. Through a venture-capital fund, he invested in Osborne Computer, the maker of portable models, which filed for bankruptcy four months...
...California conglomerate that makes a range of products that include Water Piks and jet engines. Last year it had sales of $3 billion. In 1961, the year he co-founded the Davis & Rock venture capital firm, Rock put up $280,000 to help start Scientific Data Systems, a computer maker; in 1969 the company was sold for some $950 million. In 1968 Rock was one of the three founders of Intel, the first company to make a computer on a chip. Last February IBM paid $250 million for a 12% interest in the firm, and has since increased its holding...
...never expects a quick payoff. He makes up his mind swiftly, acts decisively, moves quietly and seems to have an impeccable sense for where technology and markets will meet. Says California Financier Max Palevsky, who made a fortune as a founder of Scientific Data Systems, a mainframe computer maker that Xerox acquired in 1969 for $950 million: "Arthur has an incredible intuition. His nose never ceases to amaze...