Word: offs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Off the Blackboard. Most 128 companies stress their academic bent. Their competitive advantage is sheer brainpower-a blackboard, chalk and talent snatched from all across the U.S. They attract many corporation scientists who want to do advance research at local universities-and then they jealously guard these recruits. Said one...
Faculty boards have become reconciled to the fact that consulting jobs keep many valuable men and women at the university, while they otherwise might be tempted into industry. M.I.T.. which stars in both pure and applied research (Dr. Bush developed the first electronic computers there in the 1930s), goes...
Corporate marriages are not always happy, but they often produce remarkable offspring. One of the highway's first companies was Bomac Laboratories, Inc., which grew out of an engineering group at Sylvania and produced microwave tubes and devices (1958 sales: $10 million). When Bomac merged with Varian Associates this...
The plot: a bartender is murdered by an Army lieutenant (Ben Gazzara), who tells the police he committed the crime because the bartender had beaten and raped his wife (Lee Remick). The wife supports the lieutenant's story, and a lie-detector test, though not admissible in evidence, supports...
America, you're better off