He also discovered that making instruments that have thousands of tiny parts under the lid is not easy.
(InterScan normally makes instruments that detect toxic gases in factories).
Isco, based in Lincoln, Neb., makes instruments that analyze chemicals in water and measure flow.
InnerDyne makes instruments that help make the tiny incisions for so-called minimally invasive surgery, which is less traumatic for patients than traditional procedures.
"Why on earth would you gift that to anybody let alone those who make instruments that can be used to kill?" she asked.
The company, which is based in Norwalk, Conn., hired Warburg Dillon Read L.L.C. to advise it and expects to make a decision on the unit, which makes instruments that measure gases, liquids and solids, by early 1999.
Brown & Sharpe, which makes instruments that measure everything from candy molds to disk drives, has been struggling to pay debts after spending heavily on acquisitions, and has been in technical default on some loans since July 1999.
It is intended to make instruments that have been in use and proved to be successful, such as the Marie Curie Fellowships, much easier to apply for.
These regulations include a decision-making instrument that lead National Focal Points through a series of 4 questions to assist them in making a decision to report events to WHO for international alert and response (7 ).
The NSC provides the White House with a useful foreign policy-making instrument that is independent of the State Department.
But by the time I met Don, five years later, he had evolved this idea of making an instrument that was performable.
