May 15, 2000
Cover story
Putting bugs to work
Gainesville's Entomos hopes it can lower the cost of producing ladybug larvae to eliminate pests to make its 7-year-old biocontrol business profitable.
Talk of the bay
Missing from Honeywell investors' scope: grand jury
Publicly traded companies are required by law to tell investors about major legal entanglements that might harm earnings. But as attorneys at Honeywell Inc. well know, many smaller incidents go unreported.
Dentists help fill Westchase office park
John Westfall wasn't sure how well his new office park in Westchase would sell. His company, Waterford Construction & Development, had never built anything in that north Tampa area.
Tiny pump, big expectations
An order for one of the company's tiniest air pumps had employees at Sensidyne Inc. in Clearwater guessing for months what the customer planned to do with it. Now the whole world knows: UroMetrics Inc., the Minnesota customer, is making a new medical device to help women achieve orgasm by increasing blood flow to the clitoris.
What's in a name? Ask the big automakers
First came Moe, Larry and Curly. Now there's Autoway, Elway and . . . Maroone?
There will be plenty to do in her 'safe room'
Marilyn Shelt is spending $12,000 to put a stormproof "safe room" in her New Port Richey home, but don't call her paranoid.
