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Article: San Antonio Express-News David Hendricks column.
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- San Antonio Express-News (San Antonio, TX)
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- June 8, 2005
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Byline: David Hendricks
Jun. 8--When Henry Cisneros was mayor in the 1980s, he made business-recruiting trips yearly to the West Coast seeking computer technology investments, and to the East Coast for biotechnology investments.
The computer technology folks were expanding and were receptive. San Antonio eventually landed chip-manufacturing plants from Advanced Micro Devices, which later became Sony, and VLSI, now Maxim Integrated Products.
The biotech folks were a different breed, Cisneros found. If they were expanding, they weren't going anywhere new.
Twenty years later, Cisneros still is trying to crack the biotechnology code for ...