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...York City: "We were beginning to eat our own margins." Moreover, IBM will probably unveil additional measures to compete with the clones. Although the company with its vast resources (1985 sales: $50 billion) depends on PCs for less than 10% of its revenues, IBM does not intend to abandon the market. Industry insiders believe that it is about to market a new version of the PC-AT, with improvements that competitors will have difficulty matching...
...what are we celebrating, and should we be doing it with such abandon? When death tolls from South Africa regularly appear on the front page of The New York Times, terrorists go unpunished for the murder of innocent tourists and dictatorial regimes are the rule in more than half of the countries on earth, can we truly rejoice in the principle of liberty...
Many investors still expect People Express to survive in some trimmed-down form. Says Peter Lynch, manager of the Fidelity Magellan Fund, which has invested in People from its inception: "They may have to abandon Denver and shrink their company by a third." Nonetheless, he adds, "they're still in a dominant position in New York, the largest market in the country...
...recent tampering cases, causes us to review our products." A prudent middle course would be for all manufacturers to adopt one of the new technologies for safer capsules as quickly as possible. If that does not stop the poisonings, the companies may have to swallow hard and abandon capsules for good...
Carlson said that SDI is likely to perpetuate the arms race because no shield system could possibly be effective enough to convince the U.S. to abandon its nuclear weapons. He also cited the Reagan administration's argument that SDI could be used to protect U.S. missile silos as proof that the program is more an aid than an end to the use of nuclear weapons...