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...Sunday in the Havana Club, but Juan Antonio isn't dancing. Madonna's disco beat befuddles his salsa-savvy feet. It's just as well. A young woman in a white micro-mini has claimed his attention -- when he's not distracted by a cold, imported Heineken and the $1.2 million club layout with its wall of cascading water. Juan Antonio, 19, has gone to heaven in Fidel Castro's Cuba. He may never be unhappy again...
...Discriminatory micro-inequities are tiny, damaging characteristics of an environment," said Mary P. Rowe, professor at the Sloan School of Management...
Most business texts credit engineer Ted Hoff at Intel Corp., based in Santa Clara, Calif., with having fathered the microprocessor between 1969 and 1971. But Hyatt asserts that he put together the requisite technology a year earlier at his short-lived company, Micro Computer Inc., whose major investors included Intel's founders, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Micro Computer invented a digital computer that controlled machine tools, then fell apart in 1971 after a dispute between Hyatt and his venture-capital partners over sharing his rights to that invention. Noyce and Moore went on to develop Intel into...
Fiat, which has produced cars in Poland for more than 50 years, is shifting into high gear. Next year the Turin-based company will start building the first of 1.5 million Micro subcompacts in a ten-year venture with FSM, one of Poland's major car companies. To help recoup its investment, Fiat plans to export one-third of the Micros (estimated retail price: $6,000) to Western Europe...
...still more prestigious victory. After a fierce six- month competition with Japanese and European rivals, Motorola was selected to provide the digital voice technology for the Japanese telephone network's next generation of cellular equipment. One of Motorola's prime selling points is believed to be its pocket-size Micro-TAC cellular telephone. Introduced last year, the tiny device is already a coveted gadget in Japan. Motorola's breakthrough sent the electronics company's stock to 80 3/4, up 4 1/8 points for the week...