Word: sizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...privilege of demolishing Bing Crosby's vintage Holmby Hills mansion, television producer Aaron Spelling paid $10.25 million in cash. The bowling- alley-equipped, stadium-size French manor Spelling is building in its place will cost him about $30 million more. Just to the east, in Beverly Hills, a Japanese surgeon has dismantled Ronald Reagan's former bungalow, donated the pieces to charity and erected a Moroccan palace with five domes, an art gallery, ten baths and two reflecting pools. "We would have liked larger reflecting pools, like the Taj Mahal," explains general contractor David Conrad, whose desk is a marble...
That ratio, known as FAR, is the proportion of a building's floor space to the size...
...most compact computer yet, the SPARCstation 1. The machine is priced at $9,000, about the same as a top-of-the-line Apple Macintosh, yet Sun claims the SPARCstation 1 has more than five times the power. The Sun machine's main operating unit is only the size of a pizza box; older units with equivalent power were too big to fit on a desktop. Two years in the making, SPARCstation 1 is able to execute more than 12 million instructions a second. The computer also comes with a built-in audio system that can record and play back...
...business -- producing workstations, which are high-powered computers in compact packages -- they are all business. Already Sun has eclipsed Apollo Computer, once the dominant force in the booming workstation marketplace. Now Sun is crowding Digital Equipment, a company 25 years its senior and more than six times its size. This year, as Sun approaches $2 billion in annual sales, even IBM can no longer ignore its rise. Says Robert Herwick, who follows the industry for the investment firm Hambrecht & Quist: "Clearly, Sun is the answer to a question...
This week the federal bankruptcy court will decide what to do next. Texas Air wants to shrink Eastern to compact size, linking about 60 cities with 130 jetliners, down from the 110 cities served by 250 planes before the strike began. Another option, an auction to sell off Eastern in pieces to the highest bidders, could draw such expansion-minded airlines as TWA, American and Delta. Adding to the suspense, sources close to Ueberroth say his game may still go into extra innings...