Word: solver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more than 80 employees, as many computer terminals as phones, and excellent prospects (1982's revenues of $7 million were al most double the previous year's). Bricklin and his partner, Frankston, are planning a host of new computer software, including a math program called TK!Solver (after the proofreader's abbreviation for "to come"). They hope it will do for business and scientific models what VisiCalc does for spread sheets...
...their start. They reinvested the VisiCalc income (more than $11 million) in their new company, Software Arts, with headquarters in an old chocolate-factory building outside Boston; the number of employees has already grown from the original two to 80. The company's latest program, called TK!-Solver, is designed as a modern "tool kit" for solving mathematical problems like those confronted by engineers and chemists. Says S Bricklin: "You can't just start in the garage as easily any more. The price of entry is going up and up because people are expecting so much from these...
...official accounts, Steiner injected a little calm rationality into a turbulent era, and while his bullhorn days have subsided, he remains Massachusetts Hall's day-to-day problem solver. His new vice-presidential responsibility of overseeing Harvard Real Estate (HRE), the controversial agency whose management of University property holdings has drawn flak from tenants in recent years, is only his most recent pinch-hitting duty...
Roger Fisher prides himself on being an astute problem-solver and diplomat. Ask him to comment upon breaking news events abroad and he's likely to tell you he's too busy trying to bring peace to the world. Sometimes his initiatives have worked. Other times--like when he and an aide journeyed to Paris and Bonn in the midst of the Iranian hostage crisis and quietly tried to secure the release of the 52 captive Americans--his admirable efforts have fallen short. But at least he has tried--and often--to escape the academic ivory tower to apply...
...most of the private detectives I worked with would like to have been and what quite a few of them in their cockier moments thought they approached. For your private detective does not--or did not ten years ago when he was my colleague--want to be an erudite solver of riddles in the Sherlock Holmes manner he wants to be a hard and shifty fellow, able to take care of himself in any situation, able to best anybody he comes in contact with, whether criminal, innocent by-stander, or client. Dashiell Hammett...