He later became president of a Litton Industries unit called Intermec, a maker of bar-code scanners.

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Grumman (number 10) was absorbed into Northrop, as was Westinghouse (number 11) and Litton Industries (number 13).

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Since then it has bought Litton Industries and Newport News to become the world's largest naval shipbuilder.

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The court said Honeywell's technology was similar to Litton's, but close resemblance alone no longer amounted to patent infringement.

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"The biggest concern: Most servicers are scared to death that they're going to get sued if they modify too many current loans, " said Larry Litton Jr.

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Oncologists Weiss and Litton discourage routine mammograms for younger women, because their breast tissues are dense, making it harder to detect abnormalities and resulting in unnecessary biopsies.

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So it was a rude shock to Litton and its legions of Wall Street admirers when FORBES ran the first negative story on the seemingly perpetually successful company.

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But the findings describe in more precise detail what many cancer doctors and researchers have long been aware of, said Jennifer Litton, a breast cancer specialist at M.

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Litton Industries in those days epitomized this paradigm.

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