Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...controversy provides a vivid example of the crosscurrents that roil IBM. It has a motley collection of computers and software that fail to fit ( comfortably together. IBM solved a similar problem in the 1960s when it launched a family of computers called the System/360, which were all compatible with one another. "IBM has to find a way to pull its product lines together into a coherent whole," says Stewart Alsop, editor in chief of the trade journal InfoWorld. "That's the question about Gerstner: Does this guy know enough about computers to know what makes a good product?" Microsoft chairman...
...question is, Can Kathleen Brown pull it off? Can she subdue not only her Democratic rivals but also incumbent Republican Governor Pete Wilson? By most appearances, she has everything going for her. She has the name. As the youngest daughter of Pat Brown, the revered 1960s Governor who turned 89 last month, and as the kid sister of Jerry Brown, the erratically innovative Governor from 1975 to 1982, Kathleen, 48, is heir to California's most prominent political dynasty. And she has the money, having assiduously raised funds at $25 kaffeeklatsches and $500-a-plate banquets for the past...
...Thalidomide, which caused thousands of birth defects in the 1960s, may one day be used to prevent blindness. In laboratory tests, researchers learned that the drug stops abnormal growth of blood vessels in the eye, which can destroy vision in people with diabetes and other disorders...
...paradox of leadership is that voters are partial to candidates who seem both bigger than they are and yet are also one of them. When Mandela lived underground as an outlaw in the early 1960s and was dubbed the Black Pimpernel by the South African press for his ability to elude the police, his colleagues marveled at how he blended in with the people. He usually disguised himself as a chauffeur; he would don a long dustcoat, hunch his shoulders and, suddenly, this tall, singularly regal figure was transformed into one of the huddled masses moving along the streets...
Mandela has always taken the long view, and sometimes this gives him victories in battles that were started decades ago. After the government began to implement its Bantustan policies in the 1960s and '70s, a plan to relegate all blacks to poor, quasi-independent tribal homelands, Mandela urged the . A.N.C. to make peace with the black leaders of these enclaves whom many in the movement scorned as traitors. The A.N.C. shied away from this policy, but he kept arguing his case. In the past three years, however, the A.N.C. has brought these leaders into its embrace...