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...brand-new, high-tech business blasted off in the U.S. last week: satellite launching. Martin Marietta, which manufactures Titan-class rockets for the Air Force, signed an agreement with Federal Express to send aloft its ExpressStar communications satellite in 1989. President Reagan had opened the way for the new industry last month, when he an- nounced that NASA will drastically reduce the number of commercial cargoes carried aboard the space shuttle...
...years ago, the seven regional phone companies known as Baby Bells have enjoyed an amicable relationship with their onetime parent. Last week it was announced that the kids would gang up for the first time against the former Ma Bell. The Baby Bells have joined with Martin Marietta, the aerospace manufacturer, to bid against AT&T for an enormous prize: a federal telecommunications contract worth some $4.5 billion over ten years. AT&T has been the leading contractor on the account since 1963. The contract, which involves upgrading the Government phone system to transmit data and handle video conferencing, will...
...certainly ready, willing and able," declares Richard Brackeen, vice president for Martin Marietta's space launch systems division. His firm and its chief competitor, General Dynamics, have long experience in producing rockets for the Air Force and NASA and, with the unexpected new demand for such launchers, would like to reverse their role. They would rent Government launching facilities and use their own rockets to orbit commercial satellites. The potential benefit: providing competition that would force lower launch prices and, in turn, lure more private business...
...already own homes; they represent more than 60% of the population. Many hope to move up, as the brokers put it. Translation: they want a more expensive house with more space or more status. Emily and Bill Jones aim to step up from their three- bedroom ranch house in Marietta, Ga. Says Emily: "We are building something bigger, better, newer." Developers are responding to the demand. A survey conducted by the National Association of Home Builders reports that about 80% of all builders plan to begin constructing homes for the "move-up market" this year, compared with...
...other hand, when executives confuse intuition with fantasy, the results can be disastrous. William Agee, the former chairman of Bendix, may have confused the two during his abortive 1982 campaign to take over Martin Marietta. Marietta later rejected Agee's offer, and Bendix was devoured by Allied Corp...