Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...instead of being a high-tech hardware store, IBM is now selling help. Gerstner is betting that for the next 10 years, the technology market will be stuffed with firms aching to get rewired but without a clue about where to begin. IBM plans to sell these folks "solutions," the institutional equivalent of your nephew Phil, the relative you call when you're debating which PC to buy or wondering how to rescue the last half of that tax return you were preparing. Gerstner's Big Blue will offer solutions to help point you safely to the future...
...mainframe market was due for growth. The decision almost killed the company. Gerstner at least has stripped away the division's techno-worshipping culture and replaced it with an outlook that's more McDonald's than McDonnell Douglas. The customer focus has paid off: analysts expect the group to begin slowly increasing revenues...
...defendant's flight. After serving 17 days in jail, Kelly was released on $200,000 bond and allowed to move to Colorado to work while awaiting trial. (He had already been summarily suspended from school and handed his diploma.) But just days before his trial was to begin, Alex's parents and Michael Sherman, his lawyer at the time, flew to Colorado to visit him. Last week Sherman testified he told Kelly he did not think he could get a "fair shake from the criminal justice system," blaming "horrendous pretrial publicity" and a ruling that allowed him to be tried...
...Bronco leaving the scene. Petrocelli also promised to show a photo of Simpson wearing Bruno Magli shoes, of the type that left prints at the murder scene and that Simpson has denied owning. TIME has learned that the plaintiffs also plan to present more evidence of domestic violence, beginning six weeks before the murders, when Nicole began giving back jewelry. "A pattern of real rejection began," says a source close to the case. "You'll see the real time line for these murders begin then...
...past six months? The world press generally agreed that the opening of the Jerusalem tunnel was merely the spark that ignited long-smoldering flames of despair over years of injustice by the Israeli government against the Palestinians. Widen your vision, Krauthammer; take the long view of history and begin with the exiling of the Palestinian people in 1948. ROSE TRIGG Colorado Springs...