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...competition with unique products such as the ThinkPad notebook PC, and to beat them at their game of discounting. The company has filled practically every market channel with a new line of PCs, including models aimed at homes and small businesses. Next month Big Blue will introduce a bargain-basement line called Ambra that will not carry the IBM logo. The overall strategy has apparently worked. After losing $2 billion in the past two years, IBM's PC business is expected to report a small profit this week. "We're here to stay," says Cannavino. "When the music stops again...
During strikes organized against illegal employment practices, such as union-busting and refusal of the company to negotiate fairly, workers are guaranteed their jobs. If employers do not bargain in good faith, the National Labor Relations Board can step in and order back pay also. Businesses cannot abuse their right to permanently replace workers...
Ironically, the industry's troubles have made it easier for new airlines to get into the business. With so many planes available owing to repossessions and canceled orders, fledgling airlines have been able to buy them at bargain- basement prices. Used Boeing 727s that cost up to $40 million new can now be bought or leased for about $2 million a plane. And with so many out-of-work pilots eager to fly, the new carriers have been able to recruit flight crews for less than half the top union scale of $150,000 a year. Says Reno Air president...
...movie begins sharply, laying out the panoply of privilege: the sleek cars, the comfortable faces (Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook). It's like going on a shopping spree at Neiman Marcus and then getting whacked with the bill: here is the middle class's Faustian bargain of big money and sapping compromise, of anxious wives and Stepford lives. How handsome the paneling on a lawyer's desk -- as handsome as the paneling on a lawyer's casket. At Bendini, Lambert & Locke, death is the penalty for abusing the rule of confidentiality. Harvard Law whiz Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) will break that...
...said, however, that he is not ruling out the kiosks for another business venture. "I thought they were an original idea...If way they were constructed, the compactness, how they closed," McNichols said. "I think the rent is in the ballpark--I don't think it's bargain basement, I don't think it's outrageous...