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...Data Corp., which stopped making mainframes after heavy losses. Many companies like Wang Laboratories and Unisys have largely switched from hardware to software. The biggest fallen giant is Digital Equipment Corp., which last week reported a larger than expected quarterly loss of $66 million. Once the No. 2 computer maker after IBM, DEC has downsized in a so far unsuccessful effort to transform itself into a chip company...
Long ago in China, Knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. There was one knot so complicated that it blinded the knot-maker. Finally an emperor outlawed this cruel knot, and the nobles could not order it anymore. If I had lived in China, I would have been order outlaw knot-maker...
...three years before he moved in, when Lori got pregnant. When the baby was born last September, they named him after Sam Malone, Mike's favorite character on Cheers. Lori's heart hasn't been the same since. Neither has her life. "I used to be a list maker," she says, and then she smiles at herself. "And now I don't even have time to make lists...
Cohen and Greenfield, of course, are the hippie founders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade, the Waterbury, Vermont-based superpremium ice-cream maker that vaulted to prominence with its quirky management style and equally quirky flavors, including Chubby Hubby and Chunky Monkey. Ben and Jerry have made a very public effort to put the environment, politics and people before profits--an unpardonable sin in the canon of Wall Street and a style that worked so long as Baby Boomers were ignoring their fat intake and scarfing Cherry Garcia by the pint...
...price dropping so quickly that one day every office and home in America would have a computer. With his partner L.J. Sevin, he helped launch Silicon Valley legends such as Lotus Development, Cypress Semiconductor, Borland International and an outfit called Compaq, the world's largest personal-computer maker. He's still chairman. "My brother has done pretty well for himself," says Harold with a smile. Little brother is worth about $100 million...