Soon after retiring from the N.B.A., he established the George Yardley Company, a California-based manufacturepresentativeathat that sells engineering products.
"I don't see how losing a lane of traffic is going to improve anything," said Robert Pacent, 54, who lives in Manhasset and drives to work at a company in Great Neck that sells engineering components.
AT&T CORP., New York, the largest United States telecommunications company, agreed to buy GRC International Inc., Vienna, Va., which sells engineering and management services to the Pentagon, for $221 million in cash and assumed debt to expand its government markets division.
"We still have a job of work to do to sell engineering as a job," he said.
Aside from the regulatory, cultural and engineering challenges to selling engineered meat, Gabor Forgacs explains in this TED Talk, where he eats a bite-sized morsel of printed pork, that Modern Meadow is still fine-tuning the fat content and electrical stimulation of muscle tissue during development that are necessary to make lab-grown meat taste like farm-raised meat.
Blackstone has recruited Credit Suisse to evaluate an offer for FKI in the wake of a move by Melrose, a British investment firm that specializes in buying, restructuring and selling underperforming engineering companies, to raise a bid it has made for FKI.
Yik Yak shut down in April 2017 after selling its engineering team to Square for around $1 million.
The group, which sells consultancy, engineering and project management services, reported a margin of 7.1%.
The Raytheon Company signed an agreement yesterday to sell its engineering and construction unit to the Morrison Knudsen Corporation.
