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of Dallas, Texas. He is now a design manager at Dallas Semiconductor Corp. in Dallas, Texas.) Designing in Dallas A preliminary round had disappointed both IC teams. Still, though the parts were not cheap, costing Fairchild approximately $20 or $30 each, they were manufacturable. of Palo Alto, Calif.,

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So, the used batteries are almost arbitrarily cheap since an arbitrarily large fraction of their cost of production can be loaded on their use in transportation. — Mark - Dallas 21. — Mark - Dallas 25. That will solve these problems, not big government, big auto or big energy. Staff Tom Zeller Jr.

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