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...The leaders were a mix of old office machine manufacturers such as Burroughs that had diversified into computers, and newcomers like DEC — the Digital Equipment Corporation — which avoided using the word...
...One of its predecessor companies, Burroughs Wellcome, was responsible for AZT, the first HIV drug approved by US regulators in 1987 — and the focus of Oscar-winning film Dallas Buyers Club....
...But I doubt that Airbnb is setting its sights on the paranoid old codgers of the press (note to fellow scribes: I’m using the traditional William S Burroughs definition of a paranoid as a person who “knows...
...In 1981, fresh out of college, he was selling computers for Burroughs Corp, the precursor to Unisys. He took a job on Saturdays delivering packages for FedEx....
...When Burroughs-Wellcome merged in 1995 with Glaxo, another UK company with an early HIV treatment, the combined group became the undisputed market leader....
...“If not for the RJ Reynolds Tobacco Company, the modest skyline of downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, would not exist at all,” wrote Bryan Burrough and John Helyar in their landmark 1990 book, “Barbarians...
...… William S Burroughs: A Life, by Barry Miles, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, RRP£30 This scholarly biography of Burroughs by his friend argues that the writer was driven by his wife’s death....
...Walt Disney will incur a $200m writedown on John Carter, the action film based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel which has failed at the box office despite a $300m production budget and an extensive global...
...In the 19-teens Edgar Rice Burroughs took a day off Tarzan to invent the hero of the first, an adventurer hurled from Virginia, US, to Mars to join the red planet’s civil war between Tharks and Therns....
...Edited extract from ‘Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco’ (1990) by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar (Arrow £9.99)....
...Last year, Andrew Wylie launched Odyssey Editions to publish modern classics by the likes of Saul Bellow and William Burroughs as e-books through Amazon....
...They have some terrific contributors, including Bryan Burrough, Michael Lewis and Financial Times contributing editor Niall Ferguson, who comment brilliantly on the financial crisis....
...Fail The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and ThemselvesBy Andrew Ross SorkinPenguin, $32.95 For 19 years, the curse of Barbarians at the Gate, Bryan Burrough...
...Perhaps the studio didn’t know what to do with the deeply racist presentation of Africans in Burroughs’ novels....
...A GUIDE TO THE GOOD, GREAT AND PROFITABLE Business narrative The business narrative achieved blockbuster status with Barbarians At The Gate (1990), Bryan Burrough and John Helyar’s tale of greed and loathing...
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