Word: martin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Martin Marietta, which produces Titan-class rockets for the Air Force, was the first U.S. firm to sign up a client. It plans to launch an ExpressStar communications satellite for Federal Express in 1989. Says Richard Brackeen, a vice president in charge of launch systems for Martin Marietta Aerospace: "The private launching business could be the next widebody jet business...
...launching competitors, however, will not be totally dependent on the satellite market. NASA has proposed a space station, for example, that Boeing, Martin Marietta and McDonnell Douglas are bidding to build in the early 1990s. Once operational, the station will need to be supplied by as many as 16 cargo launches a year, and private firms may get some of that business. Commercial carriers could also win Defense Department contracts to carry hardware into space as testing of Strategic Defense Initiative technology picks...
...everything she ever wanted," notes Bruce Vilanch, who writes Bette's "Soph" jokes, "things she didn't even realize she wanted and didn't set out to get." Two things, anyway: a doting husband as dotty as she is and a three-month-daughter. Of Martin von Haselberg, 38, a commodities trader who has cavorted as a performance artist under the name Harry Kipper, Midler declares, "He sees to the heart of things. He respects and supports what I do. And he leads me, too, when I lose my way." Now listen to the new mom, 41, on the subject...
...investigating the military's chip supplies has concluded in a report to the Pentagon that only major Government intervention can save the U.S. chipmakers. The report recommends that the Defense Department invest some $2 billion over the next five years for research and development in chip-building technology. Says Martin Marietta President Norman Augustine, who chaired the advisory panel: "If we don't do this or something akin to this, the U.S. semiconductor industry will...
...Street firms may have created an atmosphere for such trading, advertently or not, by failing to maintain the so-called Chinese walls of discretion between their investment-banking divisions and their trading departments. That may have been the case in one of the insider-trading arrangements allegedly started by Martin Siegel, the former Kidder, Peabody merger whiz kid who pleaded guilty Feb. 13 to charges of illegal stock trading and tax evasion. The Wall Street Journal reported last week that Kidder, Peabody's chief executive, Ralph DeNunzio, ordered Siegel in March 1984 to create an arbitrage department to speculate...