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...selling software that is similar to IBM's products. The American manufacturer maintains that Fujitsu is violating a 1983 agreement between the two firms. IBM also went through a corporate reorganization in which 200 U.S. employees were transferred to IBM's Asia/Pacific Group as part of an effort to boost sales...
...more powerful personal computers used in business continued to grow, and demand for some very large units boomed. IBM's long-awaited new mainframe machine, which had been nicknamed the Sierra, costs about $5.5 million, but it still sold so briskly that economists predicted the machine alone would boost fourth-quarter GNP growth by a full percentage point...
...entered the big time by offering startlingly cheap fares from coast to coast and on hundreds of routes in between. The bargain tariffs have encouraged more people to take more flights to more places than at any other time in history. This week that wanderlust will receive another huge boost when a new round of fare wars erupts among the airlines, adding yet more commotion to the already crowded skies...
...airline securities. Six years later, after proving an astute stock picker, he became its president. He left in 1973 to join troubled Texas International Airlines and rose to be chief operating officer within three years. One of his first steps was to begin trying out radical fare discounts to boost business. But Burr soon began to form a more revolutionary vision of an airline that could offer extremely low fares and operate with a loose style of management...
Carlin's tenure, one of the briefest in history, was abbreviated by a need for more forceful management. Said Board Chairman John McKean: "The governors did lose confidence in Mr. Carlin. We think we can do better." Helped by increases in all postal rates, including a boost in first-class stamps from 20¢ to 22¢ last February, the service ran a $479 million surplus in the final quarter of 1985 and was carrying more mail than ever, 140 billion pieces to 73.8 million businesses and households last year. Carlin, though, was seen as cut from the old post-office mold...