Word: chairman
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...people who think about its conditional statement backwards. That is, those who think that if we make someone say "Chinese-American," we can sensitize them to the plight of hyphenated Americans. Putting terms in others' mouths does not change the way they think. People who push to de-gender "chairman" into "chair-human-being" to make people less sexist are going to find their action does not change political attitudes. Because most proponents of political correctness use this "backwards conditional" too often, critics fairly call this policy mind control. Real political correctness doesn't try to brainwash people, but only...
...painfully long time, people have been asking David Potter, chairman of British computer maker Psion, "When are you going to die?" It's nothing personal, only that Potter's company--the maker of sleek hand-held computers, with annual sales of just $235 million--is sitting astride a market now being targeted by Bill Gates and giant Microsoft Corp., plus a dozen of the world's leading computer-hardware manufacturers. The battle became so intense earlier this year that Potter was forced to issue a warning about reduced profits, and Psion's stock price took a beating...
...YORK: Intel chairman Andy Grove, codeveloper with Microsoft's Bill Gates of the industry standard "Wintel" PC, has seen the future of computing and it is... a Macintosh. In an exclusive interview Wednesday, Grove told TIME Daily that the industry is entering what he calls "the Valley of Death," a destructive period of time in which "the players will change, the technology will change, and the devices will change." What started as general-purpose computers with networking capability added almost as an afterthought, he said, will metamorphosize into network machines that also do computing...
...going to propose that a commercial American TV network make a many-part series on the cold war, it helps to be the boss. In 1994, while CNN's founder, Ted Turner (vice chairman of Time Warner, the parent company of CNN and TIME), was in Russia attending the Goodwill Games, another of his enterprises, he had a revelation. "It just hit me," he says, "that the cold war really was over and the world needed a documentary record of this conflict." A great admirer of The World at War, the classic syndicated series about World War II, Turner sought...
NAMED. WILLIAM CLAY FORD JR., 41, automotive heir; as chairman of the Ford Motor Co.; in Dearborn, Mich. Ford, great-grandson of Henry, will replace Alex Trotman in January 1999, a possibility TIME first reported last December...