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V.I.


Charging Forth;

By V.I. |  Jan 1, 1986

SOME SHOPPERS WHO HAVE overloaded their bank cards can still charge ahead at their favorite small stores. Shopping centers are beginning to fish for cust...  Read story

Bank Shot;

By V.I. |  Dec 1, 1985

BANKING AT HOME USING personal computers has been a losing proposition for Bank of America, but the San Francisco giant got a big surprise -- and found a ...  Read story

Tourist Traps;

By V.I. |  Dec 1, 1985

WOULD YOU GO TO PEORIA TO see people play mud volleyball? The state of Illinois thinks you might. It advertised the contest as part of its $10-million ca...  Read story

Painful Cures

By V.I. |  Dec 1, 1985

Would you pay $3.50 for a Tylenol tablet? You may have already. Hospitals, like other businesses, charge what the market will bear. Since hospital pati...  Read story

Rubber Ban;

By V.I. |  Nov 1, 1985

IT IS GETTING EASIER FOR businesses to follow the bouncing check. More than 20 states have enacted laws that let a bad-check recipient collect not o...  Read story

Seed Money;

By V.I. |  Oct 1, 1985

STATES ARE SPENDING MORE time planting seeds these days.For years, they competed to lure companies that were shopping for new locations. Now, they are als...  Read story

Labor's Loss;

By V.I. |  Sep 1, 1985

FOR 54 YEARS, IT HAS BEEN untouchable, so sacred is it to organized labor. But unions have lost so much clout through declining membership and political d...  Read story

No Free Lunch

By V.I. |  Sep 1, 1985

Business meal expenses are under scrutiny again. The Reagan Administration's tax package would permit companies to deduct all of their meal expenses up t...  Read story

Scorecard;

By V.I. |  Jun 1, 1985

Americans are spending lavishly on their images, whether they want to dye their hair a brighter color or to cast their companies in a better light. Restau...  Read story

Book Battle

By V.I. |  Apr 1, 1985

David and Goliath are hurling books at each other in the hushed aisles of your public library. David is Richard D. Smith, who sees a big business op...  Read story

Looking Out For Number 7535

By V.I. |  Mar 1, 1985

Workers at Ford Motor Co. are learning how to give the new kid on the production line some elbowroom -- plenty of elbowroom. The new kid is a robot ...  Read story

Gold-hunting Microbes

By V.I. |  Mar 1, 1985

Jewelry manufacturers around Providence, R.I., pour an estimated $13 million in gold into the Atlantic Ocean every year. By using a microorganism, they m...  Read story

Yellow Journalism

By V.I. |  Feb 1, 1985

The more successful your company, the faster your sales and profits grow . . . and the faster you go out of business? Historic Newspaper Archives In...  Read story

The Soul Of An Old Machine

By V.I. |  Jan 1, 1985

That workhorse of early industrialization, the steam engine, could move out of museums and back to work for industry. Fred Prahl wants to bring back the ...  Read story

Only Tightwads Need Apply

By V.I. |  Jan 1, 1985

Some accountants feel so passionately about the bottom line that they rewind their adding machine paper and use the other side. So Jim Stubbs and Gene Gum...  Read story

And Now, The Biotech Drain Opener

By V.I. |  Jan 1, 1985

The promises were never modest. There would be powerful new medicines and hardy new plants and animals. But one of the first products coming from geneti...  Read story

Shy Shrimp -- A Fatal Flaw

By V.I. |  Dec 1, 1984

When National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists were planning space colonies that would be self-sustaining worlds, they started small. They...  Read story

A Tale Of Hackers, Robbers, And Spies

By V.I. |  Dec 1, 1984

The people trying to break into computers these days aren't just kids hacking for kicks. They are nosy competitors, disgruntled former employees, and ele...  Read story

Watch Your Language

By V.I. |  Nov 1, 1984

If little Joey wants IBM's high-powered Personal Computer/XT for Christmas, watch out. He may be scheming to cheat on his Spanish papers. Even if he gets ...  Read story

They Promise That You Won't Glow In The Dark

By V.I. |  Nov 1, 1984

Joan Brennan was 33 weeks pregnant and needed X-rays to show what was blocking her intestine. Because she had received several conventional X-rays elsewhe...  Read story

Pop For Pampered Pets

By V.I. |  Nov 1, 1984

After a hard day chasing cars, your pooch comes home, all tired and sweaty, and finds a tepid bowl of tap water. No wonder he bites you. If humans can hav...  Read story

The Sweet Smell Of Success

By V.I. |  Oct 1, 1984

Next time you want to sweeten a deal, you might think about throwing in some of Victor Syrmis's products. After all, what could be sweeter than your custo...  Read story

The Gift That Keeps On Giving

By V.I. |  Oct 1, 1984

Bored with the standard class gifts the graduating MBAs at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management this year decided to get into t...  Read story

Hunt And Peck's Bad Boy

By V.I. |  Oct 1, 1984

Executives who takes a perverse pride in their inability to type have found themselves a bit stymied by the personal computer revolution, which puts a pre...  Read story

The Silicon Saloonkeeper

By V.I. |  Sep 1, 1984

He won't water down your drink or yawn if you tell him your troubles. And he never needs tipping. Scarab is a robot bartender, although "he" looks m...  Read story

Dolls And Guise

By V.I. |  Sep 1, 1984

Kids who got Cabbage Patch dolls last Christmas have something new to ask Santa for this year. Alper Richman Furs Ltd., a retailer based in Chicago, is se...  Read story

Lasagna For The Lazy

By V.I. |  Sep 1, 1984

At last, lasagna for the cook who never learned to boil water or who thinks "Al Dente" was the last Yankee lefthander to win 20 games. Pasta Presto Inc., ...  Read story

Are Two Heads Better Than One?

By V.I. |  Sep 1, 1984

James M. Bowie thinks you should throw out your old toothbrush -- andbuy one of his newfangled ones. Bowie's company is the U.S. licensee for Action...  Read story