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Back before Al Gore invented the Internet, back when 64KB was more memory than any computer would ever need, there was a time when memory managers didn't exist. But gradually, […]

I enjoyed the article 'How we'll probe the solar system' (January 2011). Author James Oberg indicated that some future missions (for example, the Curiosity Mars rover) would use a nuclear [...]

Gayle Myers, president of International Data Corp., is doing paperwork on a Friday afternoon and she is bored. She wishes it were January, when her firm is swamped with data [...]

Hocking family wares on the upswing Pawnshops' loans swell to $2 billion across the country Pawnshop owner Mark McNully need look no further than his inventory of watches and assorted [...]

St. Louis, MO-based Investment Counselors Inc.'s (ICI) president and chief investment officer Gordon Johnson said that in selecting stock for investment the company's main consideration is on cash flow on investment (CFROI) over a market-derived discount rate rather than the traditional earnings per share. He said the CFROI is a more accurate indication of determining the future financial performance of a company. ICI manages about $550 million in assets for about 80 individual and institutional clients, including the St. Vincent DePaul Society of St. Louis, St. Louis City Employees and St. Louis County Library.

Rick Clifton witnessed the building and breakup of McDonnell Douglas Corp.'s computer business. Clifton, 43, was a senior marketing consultant at McDonnell Douglas Systems Integration Co., which was scaled down [...]

Not content to rest on its box-office success, Revolution Studios, one of Hollywood's biggest new film production companies, has worked side-by-side with video distributor Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment to turn [...]

* Sir: The Green Issue (28 September) explored aspects crucial to many fmcg brands' performance in how overt, or indeed covert, many brands are when it comes to communicating their [...]

If you were to send a card to Pamela Miller, it probably would say Congratulations.' Miller, 42, and her husband, Bradford, 45, have built their two Maplewood-based businesses into concerns [...]

Good morning, class. Today's real estate quiz will focus on development in downtown St. Louis. Of the four major construction projects under way downtown, three are wholly or partially financed [...]

Brisk home refinancings and sales have area banks and financial institutions knee-deep in deeds of trust. As interest on fixed-rate loans have dropped to the 7 percent mark and below, [...]

Players revel in St. Louis' golfing mania as new country clubs compete for members A black Audi whirs down Barnes Road, rolling past the tennis courts at St. Louis Country [...]

Of the hundreds of restaurants Gary Giggey has visited, he recalls Ma Dudley's as his favorite. 'People would fly in thousands of miles to eat at that old ranch house [...]

City restaurant patrons could end up footing the $1.5 million annual interest bill for the Arena on Oakland Avenue if it is not sold by 1995. The city of St. [...]

Dan Hogan, president of Midco Enterprises in St. Louis, gets chills whenever he hears the rolling thunder. 'It gives you goose bumps when you hear it,' he says. 'When you [...]

Friday night, Laclede's Landing. The mosh pit at Kennedy's is getting violent. On the crowded floor, two dozen teens slam into each other. Grunge kids careen like pinballs, kept in [...]

After a regular season in which attendance fell, the 1993 Stanley Cup playoffs have been a windfall for the St. Louis Blues. The club generated an estimated $1.2 million in [...]

Sales increasing at Missouri wineries Augusta Winery in Augusta, Mo., saw sales of its wines increase 40 percent last year as vintners around the state report similar success. It was [...]

City development officials have abandoned plans to refinance the Cervantes Convention Center, crimping prospects for a convention hotel. Officials had hoped to use savings from the refinancing to substantially narrow [...]

The St. Louis Blues will get at least half the profits generated at their future home in Kiel Center -- a much better deal than they've got at the Arena. [...]

Government securities 26% of Boatmen's assets Teeming with cash in a weak loan market, banks have plowed billions into Treasury securities and other government-backed bonds during the past few years. [...]

The push into international construction markets at J.S. Alberici Construction Co. has drawn the firm to Canada, Israel and the former Czechoslovakia. But don't think that Alberici is neglecting St. [...]

TABULAR DATA OMITTED Five travel conventions that the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission has agreed to host will cost close to $2.2 million. The conventions, courted and signed by [...]

In October, the White-Rodgers division of Emerson Electric adopted a no-smoking policy at its St. Louis location. With the policy, the company offered -- and partially subsidized -- smoking cessation [...]

Cost too rich for Ben Edwards In his first month as president of Kiel Center Partners, Jud Perkins met with Mayor Vincent Schoemehl about the city's involvement in a proposed [...]

A few years ago, Donald and Arvella Holbrook of Brunswick, Maine, bought a living trust from the American Association for Senior Citizens. The two bought the trust primarily to avoid [...]

The St. Louis Blues will continue to draw big crowds, and events such as concerts and tractor pulls will stop in St. Louis more frequently. That's the scenario given by [...]

Twenty major St. Louis-based firms will contribute $30 million of their own money to help finance the planned Kiel Center arena. In addition, those companies -- which constitute Kiel Center [...]

The West Port hotel market continues to be the St. Louis area leader -- overshadowing the downtown, airport and Clayton hotel markets. 'Without a doubt, it's the strongest hotel market [...]

Kiel Partners close to inking deal, Perkins says Kiel Center Partners' deal to build a downtown arena is nearly done, but with a price tag $20 million higher than a [...]

Convention project Connelly, Drury may play lesser role in development Financing sources in Asia have been found for the planned downtown convention hotel, according to an official from Hilton Hotels [...]

Mark Twain Bank blazed a new trail into the foreign currency market more than a year ago by introducing its World Currency CD product. Other St. Louis banks, however, don't [...]

Like they did in the previous two decades, Baby Boomers will control the housing market in the 1990s. But as this bulge in the U.S. population ages, it will affect [...]

Keith Arnold's resignation as president of the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Commission may have been prompted by a decision by the group's board to replace him. Some members of [...]

Unclaimed Amighetti Specials sit behind the counter. Fewer dinner salads are being tossed at Charlie Gitto's Pasta House. More rooms at the Marriott Pavilion are empty on weekends. A number [...]

Donald Lasater, former chairman and chief executive of Mercantile Bancorporation, may be asked to play a key role in the stalled convention hotel project. Charles Drury and John Connelly, the [...]

United Missouri Bank of St. Louis is offering an educational video. Magna Bank is calling depositors. Boatmen's Bank of St. Louis is writing customers, asking them to visit their personal [...]

Dan Lauer will try to hit his second home run this week. Lauer, the creator of Waterbabies Dolls -- which did $27 million in sales last year -- is pitching [...]

Some of St. Louis' travel-related businesses are harvesting this summer's bumper crop of tourists that grew from the airline industry's price wars. Among the winners are Avis, Hertz and Budget [...]

The Wanamaker -- the PGA of America's trophy -- won't be the only prize sought at Bellerive Country Club next month. Off Bellerive's No. 10 fairway at the 1992 PGA [...]