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...experts outside the Pentagon. It is called "develop -- but wait." Perform the R. and D., in short, but go to production only if the imagined threat clearly emerges and if the cost is manageable. A more idealistic version advocated by Seth Bonder, president of a Michigan think tank called Vector Research, would encourage the Pentagon to invest in R. and D. but actually build new weapons only if they would correct an impending imbalance with the Soviet Union; it should pass up those that would give the U.S. a destabilizing military advantage...
Scientists someday might also be able to design a permanent cure for VHL, the researcher said. The cure might involve the creation of a special virus that VHL sufferers would be infected with. The virus, known as a "shuttle vector," would insert correctly functioning copies of the gene into a person's chromosomes, Seizinger said...
...even Paranoidspeak but not Coolspeak. Only about 10 people here are authentic blondes, and very few of them have either a tan or a surfboard. Consequently, when I see some pale, hairy organism loping out of the Science Center and telling some equally unfortunate companion about his "tubular" new vector conversion program, I am overcome by irony and grief...
Another company squeezed by IBM is Vector Graphic (fiscal 1983 sales: $33.6 million). Admits Dick Hahn, a senior vice president: "When IBM came into the market it took a lot of business that we had." Sales fell $2.5 million in 1982, and a $2.4 million profit turned into a $3 million loss. One-quarter of the company's 400-person work force has been laid...
Nothing seems to have gone right for Vector Graphic lately. Lore Harp, one of the founders, was divorced from her husband, the company's chief designer, remarried, then got out of day-to-day operations for nine months before taking over control again last year. Her partner Carole Ely also was divorced, then married a company officer; she has since retired, though she still sits on the board. In an attempt to get back on track, Vector Graphic is stepping up its marketing and distribution efforts as well as considering an IBM-compatible model...