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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Opponents of Proposition 1-2-3--which would drastically change the city's rent control system by allowing some tenants in rent controlled unites to buy their apartments--severely criticized CHOA last year for using temps to collect the signatures needed to put the measure on the ballot...
...said 1-2-3, which would weaken rent control by allowing some tenants in rent-controlled apartments to buy their homes, would drive poorer tenants out of the city by giving landlords an incentive to rent only to the wealthy...
...effectively the computers they bought during the go-go era of a few years ago. The head of Eastman Kodak's computer operations, Katherine Hudson, says her computer budget barely grew at all this year, in contrast to an increase of more than 15% last year. Rather than buy new hardware, she is "looking for ways to make past investments pay off first...
When companies do buy new gear, they are rapidly downsizing, junking their mainframes in favor of smaller, more flexible workstations, made by companies like Sun Microsystems. Because of this shift, mainframe sales are expanding only about 5% annually, less than half the rate of a few years ago. Says Rod Canion, president of Houston-based Compaq: "The rules are changing, and it's very difficult for the big-computer makers to accept." At the other end of the spectrum, some PC makers are getting hit with a different problem: a glut of machines. Says Michael Dell, who heads an Austin...
Greenspan provided far more than just verbal encouragement. To ensure that Wall Street had sufficient cash to buy stocks after the Friday the 13th sell- off, the Fed pumped $2 billion into the banking system Monday. Earlier, E. Gerald Corrigan, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, urged officials in Japan and West Germany to support the U.S. dollar to help restore confidence in American markets. "The U.S. had excellent crisis management this time," said Heiko Thieme, the Manhattan-based chief strategist for West Germany's Deutsche Bank...