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...3m employees who received it last year, the blandly worded letter spelled doom. They were about to be spun off to a new company being formed around 3M's money-losing data storage and medical imaging divisions. The outcasts would have to teach those old dogs some profitable new tricks. The outfit's products, ranging from floppy disks to X-ray film and magnetic resonance devices, were well regarded but caught in viciously competitive markets. When Gallup polled the spun-off workers about their fate, typical responses included "shocked," "betrayed" and "apprehensive...
There was, in truth, plenty to be scared about. 3M (1995 sales: $13.4 billion) has long been the Ma Bell of Minnesota companies--a revered and maternalistic giant that gave the world Scotch tape and Post-It notes, where jobs for life are still a norm. The spin-off, called Imation, a $2.3 billion business that became an independent, publicly traded company last month, offered no such security. Only 3 of 4 people who worked for the new company's divisions when they were part of 3M made the move to the Imation payroll. Gone were two management layers, five...
Kara Miller's performance at Easterns was good enough for her to qualify for the NCAA Championships at Ann Arbor, Michigan. In the 1m dive, Miller came in 27th, and in the 3m she placed 26th. In both events, she was the top Ivy finisher...
...diving team also won handily, defeating Army 169-95. Junior Vaughn Emerson took first in the 1m spring-board and second in the 3m, complemented by freshman Matt Murray, who placed first in the 3m and second...
Harvard also captured the 400m free relay and the 200 medley relay. Emerson won both the 1m and 3m diving. Army 100 Harvard...