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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reach sales of $3 billion in 1989. Last week the company did it again. Compaq introduced its eagerly awaited LTE, a laptop machine that packs all the power of a desktop computer into a package small enough to fit into a briefcase. The notebook-size machine has a standard keyboard and an easy-to-read backlit screen. Most important, the 6-lb. machine is the only one of its size that accepts standard 3.5-in. diskettes, which will enable users to transfer files from laptop to desktop in a snap. "This one is easy to sell. It is the Mercedes...
...videos and seventy times seven other gimmicky editions. Now, for the parson who has everything, here comes the ultimate in modern packaging: the Electronic Bible. This is not a new translation but a hand-held computer containing the entire scriptural text in either the King James or the Revised Standard Version. The item, manufactured by New Jersey-based Franklin Computer, will go on sale in selected retail outlets next week. Price...
...this important? Because gnawing uncertainty about the number of particle families had plagued two theories that are the foundation of modern physics: the Big Bang theory of the creation of the universe and the Standard Model of the building blocks of matter...
Some safeguards installed in the market after the 1987 crash may have helped cushion last week's fall. In Chicago the Mercantile Exchange twice halted trading in S&P 500 futures contracts, which represent the stocks in the Standard & Poor's 500 index. The automatic cutoffs, or "circuit breakers," slowed the contracts' drop. In 1987 parallel free falls in New York and Chicago, which are linked by computerized trading programs, had aggravated the collapse. But last week some Chicago traders claimed that the stoppages in futures trading restricted the ability of some investors to hedge their losses, forcing them...
...begin your pre-interview research in the OCS library. Useful directories include Standard & Poor's Register of Corporations, Directors and Executives, and Dunn and Bradstreet's Reference Book of Corporate Managements. We also get Business Week, Fortune and The Wall Street Journal. We also have a collection of the annual reports of recruiting companies...