Canion had allowed competitors such as Dell Computer, AST Research, and Gateway 2000 to undercut Compaq with cheaper offerings, that led to a $ 71 million loss for that quarter, Compaq's first loss as a company.

Pfeiffer became President and CEO of Compaq in 1991, as a result of a boardroom coup led by board chairman Ben Rosen that forced co-founder Rod Canion to resign as President and CEO.

At the conclusion, the board was unanimous in picking Pfeiffer over Canion.

Phylis Canion, who was responsible for capturing the alleged specimen, claimed that t-shirts highlighting the event were shipped to locations such as Italy, Guam, and Iraq.

The company was formed by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto — former Texas Instruments senior managers.

Compaq was founded in February 1982 by Rod Canion, Jim Harris and Bill Murto, three senior managers from semiconductor manufacturer Texas Instruments.

In 1999, Canion admitted that his ouster was justified, saying " I was burned out.

Compaq was the first company to leave the consortium, stating that with the departure of CEO Rod Canion, one of the primary backers behind the formation of ACE, they were shifting priorities away from higher-end systems.

Rosen and Canion had disagreed about how to counter the cheaper Asian PC imports, as Canion wanted Compaq to build lower cost PCs in-house, while Rosen believed that Compaq needed to buy standard components from suppliers and reach the market faster.

While Canion developed an 18-month plan to create a line of low-priced computers, Rosen sent his own Compaq engineering team to Comdex without Canion's knowledge and discovered that a low-priced PC could be made in half the time and at lower cost than Canion's initiative.

Murto departed Compaq in 1987, while Canion ( President and CEO ) and Harris ( SVP of Engineering ) left under a shakeup in 1991 that saw Eckhard Pfeiffer appointed President and CEO.

The Christian bishopric seated at Atella had its origins in 438 or 439 when Canion and eleven associates from North Africa were either expelled by Gaiseric, the Arian king of the Vandals or fled: ex Africa pulsi vel propria sponte exulantes, in Italian advecti.

Jim Harris is an American businessman, who, along with Rod Canion and Bill Murto, founded Compaq.

The latter tried to arbitrate through a delegation from Providence, which offer was declined by the invaders.

Reportedly, Chiang seriously considered accepting this offer, but declined only in the knowledge that the United States would certainly be outraged by the gesture.

The state of California had declined philanthropic proposals to keep the murals in their original location and the Smithsonian withdrew their offer.

" After the U. S. enforced the embargo, Nicaragua was isolated from the West, forcing the Sandinistas to rely more on Eastern bloc military and economic assistance even though Moscow declined to offer the quantity of aid it provided to close communist allies.

At first, Thomas, who was the head cook at the restaurant, and the Clausses declined Sanders ' offer, but the Colonel persisted and the Clauss family franchised their restaurant with KFC and later also owned many other KFC franchises in the Midwest.

The University of Berlin in 1923 called on him to relocate there, but he declined the offer.

In 1907 he declined an offer of knighthood in order to retain his U. S. citizenship.

Peter Bogdanovich was then approached but he also declined the offer and made What's Up, Doc?

He declined the offer of the chair of philosophy in the university in 1723, but accepted, in 1727, the sinecure office of librarian to the city of his adoption.

She wanted to have the watch engraved with the words, " To Pork from the O ' Hara's — Well done good and faithful servant ," but Pork declined the offer.

He declined an offer from the Dresden court, since he wanted to work with greater artistic freedom ; Telemann wanted a post similar to the one he had in Leipzig.

Telemann declined the position, but only after using the offer as leverage to secure a pay raise for his position in Hamburg.

Simon declined Ehrlich and Schneider's offer to bet, and used the following analogy to explain why he did so:

Bennett declined the offer to be Dole's running mate but suggested Kemp, a man described as Dole's antagonist.

The spokesman said XM declined Ashcroft's offer to work as a lobbyist for the company.

As it was, a special meeting of the British cabinet called to consider the " final offer ", they declined to pass on the message to Warsaw under the grounds this was not a serious proposal on the part of Berlin.

Page's first choice for the lead singer was Terry Reid, but Reid declined the offer and suggested Robert Plant, a Stourbridge singer for the Band of Joy and Hobbstweedle.

In 1946 Newman declined the offer of an OBE as he considered the offer derisory.

President Clinton declined Israel's offer, believing that to accept it would increase anti-Muslim sentiments and endanger Muslim-Americans.

DEC declined the offer.

The resources at the disposal of the Pope, however, were all required for exigencies nearer home, and the offer was declined.

Upon hearing Bushnell's comment, the two groups declined his offer.

In 2000, after Yasser Arafat rejected the offer made to him by Ehud Barak based on the two-state solution and declined to negotiate for a more favorable offer, it became clear that Arafat would not make a deal with Israel unless it included the full Palestinian right of return, which would demographically destroy the Jewish character of the State of Israel.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

Although he initially declined the part of Dr. David Banner in The Incredible Hulk because of its comic book origins, on reading Kenneth Johnson's script for the pilot episode, he was persuaded to change his mind ( and agreed to remain involved with the series for as long as Johnson was to be involved ).

Hoxha managed to remain firm and his support had not declined.

Breaking a long held tradition, President Johnson declined to ride with Grant's carriage or attend Grant's Inauguration at the Capitol, having chosen to remain at the White House signing last minute bills into law.

Maciunas invited Ono to join the Fluxus group, but she declined because she wanted to remain an independent artist.

While the military use of the flintlock declined after the adoption of the percussion cap from the 1840s onward, flintlock rifles and shotguns remain in use amongst recreational shooters.

President Lyndon Johnson offered Dewey a number of positions on several blue ribbon commissions, as well as a seat on the U. S. Supreme Court, but Dewey declined them all, for he preferred to remain in political retirement and concentrate on his highly profitable law firm.

Whitlam wanted him to remain a further two years, but Hasluck declined, citing his wife's refusal to remain at Yarralumla longer than the originally agreed five years.

Livestock raising and timber harvesting remain important sectors of Grant County ’ s economy, although the production and profitability of these industries has declined in recent years due mainly to political and expanding-market factors.

But the SM & P shut down in the 1930s and Polley declined until today only a bar and some homes and farms remain, while Gilman survives.

In the September 2012 reshuffle, Duncan Smith was offered the job at the Ministry of Justice replacing Kenneth Clarke but declined to remain in his current post.

Leaving the service with the rank of major after the war – he declined an offer to remain as a lieutenant-colonel – Healey joined the Labour Party.

Overbury declined, as he sensed the urgency to remain in England and at his friend's side.

Although Congress declined on 12 May to make a decision on the peace establishment, it did address the need for some troops to remain on duty until the British evacuated New York City and several frontier posts.

The average age of menarche has declined over the last century but the magnitude of the decline and the factors responsible remain subjects of contention.

Most sources agree that the average age of menarche in girls in modern societies has declined, though the reasons and the degree remain subjects of controversy.

Norton declined to move with the show, opting to remain in San Francisco with his new wife.

Later, the Sui Empire maintained the use of cataphracts, but the use of horse armor declined in the Tang Empire ( becoming limited to ceremonial guards of honor ) for reasons that remain unclear.

The plan worked and Overbury declined, wishing to remain in England and at his friend's side.

Hartmann declined the offer, preferring to remain with JG 52.

Psaltis was also offered a contract by WCW, but declined to leave ECW in order to remain with her fiancé, ECW wrestler Simon Diamond.

Having declined an offer to remain in the army as a captain, he went up to Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he read Law and was chairman of the Cambridge University Conservative Association, and on the committee of the Cambridge Union Society.

This was not a coalition government as the NDP declined an offer to sit in Cabinet, preferring to remain in opposition.