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While many major passenger airlines are trying to return to profitability by shrinking their flight schedules, Federal Express Corp., the pioneer in overnight, coast-to-coast package delivery, aims to become bigger by flying farther faster-faster, in fact, than the speed of sound...
...school's budget is not up to a microcomputer, there are compact electronic learning aids that can be toted to and from school like a lunch box and cost from under $20 to about $120. Texas Instruments, a pioneer in "talking" computer chips, is the leading producer of these less expensive aids. (Others: Mattel, Coleco, Milton Bradley.) In 1978 TI introduced Speak & Spell, a talking learning aid, which imitated the human voice-questioning, coaching and correcting the user -with an integrated circuit on a single silicon chip. On a later machine, called Speak & Read ($75), a child can complete...
...pioneer investors, however, ran into serious problems. Workmanship was often shoddy. Employees were sometimes unfamiliar with wrenches and other basic tools. Chinese government officials demanded a role in plant management, such as naming supervisors, who often turned out to be more adept at political maneuvering than running a factory. Telephones, roads and other elements of economic infrastructure were limited...
Phototherapy, in fact, is not new; an English surgeon (and pioneer photographer) named Hugh Diamond used pictures of madwomen in his work with mental patients in the mid-19th century. But photography has only recently come into serious psychotherapeutic use, and it still tends to involve patients' responses to images of themselves or members of their immediate family. No one before Walker has collected reactions as systematically, or from as many people...
...shops as hangouts for eleven-year-olds) has oases in Kuwait and Qatar. But Baskin-Robbins, now owned by a European-based conglomerate, started out in California in the 1940s as a two-man operation, with Brothers-in-Law Irv Robbins and Burt Baskin scooping furiously. Another pioneer scooper is Earl Swensen, 69, who still owns his original San Francisco ice-cream parlor. Ten years ago, he sold the chain it gave birth to, however, and Swensen's, which has a shop in the Singapore airport, among many other places, recently opened its 300th franchise...