Word: bites
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Traumatic as the cutbacks are to the giant firm's employees, they underwhelmed Wall Street analysts. Many think IBM has yet to bite the final bullet, and must pare its costs and payrolls further. (See related stories beginning on page...
...AWAY by Mary-Joan Gerson, illustrated by Carla Golembe (Little, Brown; $15.95). According to an ancient Nigerian tale, the sky was once so close to the earth that folks could take a bite. It was delicious. But people grew self-indulgent and wasteful, and the sky decided to seek revenge. This apt retelling is abetted by brilliant illustrations that seem to radiate their own heat and light...
...submit phony bids in U.S. Treasury auctions. The government is seeking unspecified fines and court injunctions against former managing directors Paul Mozer and Thomas Murphy. Mozer and Murphy, who both contest the suit, also face possible criminal indictments. But not all of the SEC's actions had as much bite. In a settlement that some observers criticized as toothless, the federal watchdog agency fined three former top managers a combined $225,000 for their failure to provide proper supervision. John Gutfreund, chairman, was fined $100,000 and permanently barred from running a securities firm. Thomas Strauss, president, and John Meriwether...
...need to get rid of the vicious ones," says Nick Debnath '96. Debnath says he has seen squirrels bite tourists' legs...
...choice woman, I encourage those with a view contrary to the Peninsula's to take a look at this issue. Really, it won't bite. The greatest risk you run is that of receiving a paper cut. It certainly won't call into question any beliefs that are based on any rational foundation...