Word: colorado
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...Cray and the company he founded have decided to go their separate ways. In an unexpected move, the firm announced last week that it was splitting into two rival entities: Cray Research, based in Minneapolis, and Cray Computer, based in Colorado Springs and headed by Seymour Cray. The new company, financed with $150 million in cash and equipment from its parent firm, will devote itself to developing the long-awaited Cray-3, a computer that will compete head on with the next generation of supermachines produced by Cray Research. "It's a stunning development," says Gary Smaby, an analyst with...
...Rollwagen tells it, the decision turned on a chat he and Cray had four weeks ago in Colorado Springs. "I said to him, 'It's not working, is it, Seymour? It isn't feeling right.' " The two discussed options short of a total split, but Cray kept pressing. "It's almost like he forced me to turn the page," says Rollwagen. "He said, 'Isn't there ((an option)) that would be even cleaner? Let's get on to that one.' It just became very clear to the two of us that this was the right thing...
North of Yuma, east of the Colorado River and smack in the middle of nowhere, Quartzsite is not an official town. Never incorporated, possessing no mayor, no schools, no stoplight, no town water or sewer system, no zoning rules or local police, the "gem of the desert" is home year round to maybe a thousand people...
Residents of northern Colorado can sleep a little easier now that 82-year-old Jack Kelm is back behind bars. Two weeks ago, police nabbed the octogenarian as he pedaled away from an alleged stickup at a Longmont, Colo., bank on a stolen bicycle. Kelm has confessed to a string of stickups committed, he said, to supplement his Social Security check. With a rap sheet covering nearly seven decades, he is believed to be the oldest bank robber on record. If convicted of all charges, Kelm could be sentenced to 120 years in the slammer...
...study done at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, it was found that no athletes were in better shape than table tennis players, except for marathon runners and long distance walkers...