In 1982 he became President of Facit, an office machines manufacturer, followed by ten years with white-goods manufacturer Electrolux where he eventually advanced to the position of CEO.

Some former SARA employees went to Facit and worked with the Facit EDB.

By the early 1960s the corporation had a total of 8, 000 employees with subsidiaries in over 100 countries, and the subsidiary Facit had come to dominate the business of the corporation.

Sharp put in great efforts in size and power reduction and introduced in January 1971 the Sharp EL-8, also marketed as the Facit 1111, which was close to being a pocket calculator.

Chase admired Whorf's work and frequently sought out a reluctant Whorf, who considered Chase to be " utterly incompetent by training and background to handle such a subject.

Considered to be more active than many pythons, as well as being a very docile and " easy to handle " snake, the Woma is highly sought after in the reptile, and exotic pet trade.

This huge army was disruptive and sought food.

The newly-established government of Manitoba sought conciliation among the province's ethnic, religious and linguistic factions, and generally regarded Schultz as a disruptive force.

Apart from all of his external enemies, a host of rebels also sought to overthrow Alexios from the imperial throne, thereby posing another major threat to his reign.

When Amyntas sought Spartan aid against the growing threat of Olynthus, the Spartans eagerly responded.

If the book of Zephaniah was largely composed during the monarchic period, the author of the book of Zephaniah attempts to accomplish this change in behaviour through the threat of future calamity for “ those who have turned back from following the Lord, / who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him ” ( 1: 6 ).

During the Seven Years ' War, the British sought to neutralize any military threat Acadians posed and to interrupt the vital supply lines Acadians provided to Louisbourg by deporting Acadians from Acadia.

On the eastern front, the Turks continued to loom large as a threat, although war would mean further compromises with the Protestant princes, and so the Emperor sought to avoid that.

Nyerere believed multiple political parties, in a nation with hundreds of ethnic groups, were a threat to national unity and therefore sought ways to ensure a one party system.

Since piracy was a significant threat in Caribbean waters, merchants sought ships that could outrun pursuers.

Now concerned by the threat of divorce, Lady Aylesford sought to dissuade her husband from proceeding but Lord Aylesford was adamant and refused to reconsider.

At that time the principal threat to Britain was seen as Zeppelin attacks and a specially designed fighter was sought to counter this threat.

During the French and Indian War ( part of the Seven Years ' War and known by that name in Canada and Europe ), the British sought to neutralize the Acadian military threat and to interrupt their vital supply lines to Louisbourg by deporting Acadians from Acadia.

To improve her own security and ensure the future of her children, Messalina sought to eliminate anyone who was a potential threat to her and her children.

But the biggest threat to the Mission's stability came from the presence of Spanish settlers who sought to take over Capistrano's fertile lands.

Rather than recognizing territories of the Austrian-Hungarian empire solely within the principles of self-determination, Clemenceau sought to weaken Hungary just as Germany and remove the threat of such a large power within Central Europe.

The threat of US military strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities equally concerned Bahrain ’ s government and Shia-dominated opposition, with both expressing fears that it could undermine the delicate political accommodation the two sides have sought under King Hamad.

The Spanish Empire sought to end the " Moro threat ".

Richard was evidently well aware of the threat from this quarter since in the summer of 1485, when Stanley sought permission to leave the court and return to his northern fastness of Lathom, the king insisted that his son, George Stanley, Lord Strange, take his place at court as a token for his father ’ s good behaviour.

Recognizing the drug trade as a threat to regional security, Toledo sought to create a common Andean approach to the drug war.

Because radioactivity poses a potential health threat, a safer alternative was sought.

Allegations of a love affair between Gustav and Kurt Haijby, a wine wholesaler who sought to expand his business to the royal family, led to the court paying 170, 000 kronor under threat of blackmail by Haijby.

Gould sought to make good on his threat.

Shortly after the arrival of the first Euro-American settlers, Peter Fine sought to quell this threat by leading a punitive expedition against the Cherokee town of Cowee in North Carolina, which Fine captured and burned.

It seems that Shuttarna had sought Assyrian aid in the face of the Hittite threat.

The King and his family sought refuge in the Legislative Assembly who, under armed threat, suspended Louis XVI and convoked the National Convention.

This city was a base from which the Egyptian Fatimids launched frequent raids on the Kingdom of Jerusalem and Fulk sought to neutralise this threat.

What we have in mind does have something in common with the goals of psychoanalysis and with the methods by which they are sought.

Adams contended that once such a special class had been created it became a vested interest and sought to maintain itself by assuming exclusive control over the relationships between God and man.

On the positivist theory, everything I sought to express by calling it evil in the first case is still present in the second.

Influenced by psychoanalytic psychologists including Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, these authors sought to understand the way that individual personalities were shaped by the wider cultural and social forces in which they grew up.

The Greek sculptors tried to clarify it by looking for mathematical proportions, just as they sought some reality behind appearances.

Lindbergh initially sought out Carrel to see if his sister-in-law's heart, damaged by rheumatic fever, could be repaired.

However, by mid-1837 the South Australian Register was warning of escaped convicts from New South Wales, and tenders for a temporary gaol were sought.

A study conducted in 1901 by physician Duncan MacDougall sought to measure the weight lost by a human when the soul " departed the body " upon death.

These steels were of poor quality, and the introduction of pattern welding, around the 1st century AD, sought to balance the extreme properties of the alloys by laminating them, to create a tougher metal.

While Renaissance artists sought nature to find their style, the Mannerists looked first for a style and found a manner. In Mannerist paintings, compositions can have no focal point, space can be ambiguous, figures can be characterized by an athletic bending and twisting with distortions, exaggerations, an elastic elongation of the limbs, bizarre posturing on one hand, graceful posturing on the other hand, and a rendering of the heads as uniformly small and oval.

Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — By what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time?

The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 ( a first for a U. S. president ), charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, when he sought to remove his Secretary of War without Senate approval ; his trial in the Senate ended in an acquittal by a single vote.

The Whigs in the House sought, by use of a joint session majority, to dictate the choice of the two U. S. senators.

The Radicals in the House of Representatives impeached him in 1868 ( a first for a U. S. president ), charging him with violating the Tenure of Office Act, when he sought to remove his Secretary of War without Senate approval ; nevertheless, his trial in the Senate ended in an acquittal by a single vote.

The testament of Alfonso leaving his kingdom to the three holy orders was dismissed out of hand by the nobility of his kingdoms, and possible successors were sought.

He initially sought to maintain the Aragonese control over Sicily early in his reign by supporting the claims to island of his brother, James II of Aragon.

Carnegie was an ardent supporter of commercial “ survival of the fittest ” and sought to immunity from business challenges by dominating all phases of the steel manufacturing procedure.

From the unexpected realism of his first major figure — inspired by his 1875 trip to Italy — to the unconventional memorials whose commissions he later sought, Rodin's reputation grew, such that he became the preeminent French sculptor of his time.

During the late 1950s it was sought by two rail historians, George Horn and Martin Schachne, but they did not gain access to the tunnel itself.

In 1964, the brothers Jos and Klaas Molenaar, former players for KFC and owners of a growing appliance store chain, sought to create a powerful football team in the Zaanstreek by merging the two local professional teams ( KFC and ZFC ).

Beat writer William Burroughs read a paper by Richard Evans Schultes on the subject and sought out yagé in the early 1950s while traveling through South America in the hopes that it could relieve or cure opiate addiction ( see The Yage Letters ).

A merger between the two leagues was sought by the senior league and announced in 1966, but was not finalized until 1970.