"Yes, the format wars," said Gerard Catapano, the manager of electronics testing at Consumer Reports magazine.
Gerard Catapano, manager of electronics testing at Consumer Reports, explains that human perception of loudness follows the so-called 10-to-1 rule: the loudness of a particular sound must be increased in intensity by a factor of 10 for the sound to be perceived as twice as loud.
But Carl Gish, the manager of the electronics store, complains, "I saw the data, and the number of loss leaders is ridiculous".
Michael Tamor, Ford's manager of vehicle electronics research, said accessories like dashboard computers draw little current, so most new energy will go to improving fuel economy.
Early in James M. Hausler's morose psychological thriller, "Kalamity," Stanley, the deranged baby-faced manager of an electronics and car parts store in Northern Virginia, vents his fear and loathing of the opposite sex to his best friend, Billy.
The band's roots are in the Borough Park neighborhood of Brooklyn, where the Zablidowsky brothers were raised by their mother, Doris, who worked in a hospital cafeteria, and their father, Marty, the manager of an electronics warehouse.
Tellingly, the role she played in The 40 Year Old Virgin, the terrifying manager of an electronics store who alternately bullies and propositions a petrified Steve Carell, was originally written for a man.
In one such case, Hany Kiareldeen, the manager of an electronics store in Passaic, spent 19 months in jail based on evidence -- the content of which was never divulged -- that he threatened to kill former Attorney General Janet Reno before the government's case collapsed and he was ordered freed in 2000.
"The guy in the workshop will build anything to our specifications if we can't get it ourselves," said Gerard Catapano, the manager of testing in electronics.
MATAMOROS, Mexico — When the latest bloody headlines from the drug war in Mexico reach headquarters in New York, Ken Chandler, the manager of an American electronics manufacturing plant here, jumps on the phone.
Just prior to SiBEAM, I was the founding general manager of the consumer electronics group at Silicon Image, which was an interesting opportunity because it was kind of a start-up within a larger company.
