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...reports surfaced last summer that Sony-made lithium-ion batteries had an occasional tendency to fry Apple, Dell and other laptops, the boss of the sprawling Japanese media conglomerate was having a great year. For four quarters, Sony had beaten financial expectations (though it wasn't always profitable). The firm was leaner, following more than 10,000 job cuts and the closure of nine factories. The consumer-electronics division was back in the black. And the movie studio was riding high, led by The Da Vinci Code. Meanwhile, investors had sent the stock up more than 8% through July...
...announced the creation of a task force to investigate the possibility of a city-wide ban.But Healy’s announcement doesn’t mean the controversy is likely to blow over.The task force includes four Cambridge residents as well as representatives from an equipment manufacturer, a landscaping firm, relevant city departments, and a member from MIT. But that did not fully satisfy advocates of an all-out ban.“All those who advocate for the use of leaf blowers...are hoping to benefit by making others suffer,” resident Megan Brook said during...
DIED. Robert Anderson, 85, automotive engineer turned chairman of Rockwell International, who expanded the firm into an aerospace giant that built space shuttles and the much maligned, hugely expensive B-1 long-range bomber; in Los Angeles. Known for his bluntness--"A bomber is a baby killer; people don't like bombers," he once said--Anderson successfully lobbied Ronald Reagan's aides to resurrect the controversial B-1, which could carry nuclear weapons and had little risk of radar detection, after it had been abandoned during the Carter Administration. He also helped devise the 426 hemi engine with which NASCAR...
early '50s MARY PICKFORD As the studio's output dwindles with the silent-film star as producer, she and surviving co-founder Chaplin agree to sell the firm Low.?................High
...Processing over 50 million cubic feet of gas per day, the Repsol Rio Grande in Bolivia's eastern state of Santa Cruz sends gas to Bolivia and Brazil. Before the Spanish firm took over in 1997, the state-run facility barely functioned properly because of a lack of resources. Since then, says plant operations supervisor Joaquim Mendez, "things run efficiently - virtually accident free, productive and on schedule...