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...likes computers so much that he bought an array of Hewlett-Packard hardware (central processing unit, disc drive, digital tape unit, hardcopy printer, typesetter) with his own money. He set the rig up in his house, and he helps pay off the $70,000 cost by running a one-man computer typesetting business on the side. Waite's machines are on display at the conference. A Los Angeles-based colleague named David Packard has been using them to demonstrate a Greek language program. Packard seems to have changed the locks, because when Waite begins noodling with his computer...
...Park or Kriangsak died or was driven from office, either would probably be replaced by yet another one of the generals from whose ranks both leaders came. The Philippines, however, has no credible mechanism to assure an orderly succession. Marcos' one-man rule recalls Louis XIV's declaration, "L 'état c 'est moi," and the warning sometimes attributed to Louis XV, "Après moi le déluge...
Shernoff, 41, describes himself as "a one-man prosecutor going around the country imposing fines and penalties on insurance companies for illegal conduct." He argues that punitive damages offer the only effective way to protect consumers from wrongdoing by insurers, since claims practices are not closely regulated. In all of 1978, Shernoff points out, the California Department of Insurance collected $7 million for 13,000 claimants; but in just two months last spring, Shernoff won awards and settlements totaling $3 million for 26 claimants...
...Amazon is so wild that Ludwig was obliged to become a one-man development program. In the past twelve years, his Jari Forestry and Agricultural Enterprises has invested some $780 million, of which $520 million came directly from Ludwig's resources. He has carved from the rain forest four towns (the largest of which is Monte Dourado), as well as an 85-bed hospital, four schools, 4,500 miles of roads and trails, a 26-mile railroad, and three small airports. The project has attracted so many job seekers, peddlers and hangers-on that the population of the area...
Until now, in order to run the operation as a one-man show, Ludwig has even refused Brazilian tax credits that could have saved him roughly 50% of his own investment. However, since the next stage will cost $650 million to $750 million and perhaps much more, he is seeking to line up credit from American and European financial institutions...