David Packard, who, with Bill Hewlett, founded Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto garage in 1939, hired Perkins in 1957, at a time when the company was entering a period of rapid expansion, and Perkins was put in charge of the research labs.

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When the Democrats take charge of the House, Ms Pelosi has promised a rapid succession of reforms, mostly piecemeal and populist.

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