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...constant advantage over the only non-NATO deep water navy in the world--the Soviet Navy. At no time during my cruise were we unaware of the crushing predominance of the United States; sailors told me that many of the Caribbean islanders refer to America as the "Northern Colossus...
...great sales colossus, is also great to sell to. We are a company that has provided IBM with services for ten years and have found it to be a model customer. It is fair, pays on time and cooperates completely when problems arise. Unlike many other large corporations, which have double standards for buying and selling, IBM practices what it preaches...
...Silicon Valley. This week's cover story, however, looks in another direction. It treats a very large, relatively old, traditional high-tech company, headquartered in New York's Hudson Valley, that has staged a spectacularly successful invasion of the personal-computer market: IBM, the once and future colossus. Says Business Editor George M. Taber, who supervised the story: "After telling the troubles of corporate behemoths like General Motors and U.S. Steel, it is refreshing to describe a major American company that is very successful. IBM is a giant that does just about everything right...
Political ideology has jeopardized the present arrangement of the EMS. Yet in order to secure its still essential aims, the Europeans must broaden its scope. Lingering in most European minds is the desire for American participation in currency talks and alignments. The U.S. dollar is a bit of a colossus to European, and an indifferent one at that. Reagan's strong-dollar stance has been insufferable, for a mighty dollar makes any cut in oil prices of a windfall for Common Market countries. France alone stood to have gained $3.5 billion from the recent OPEC slash, but the devaluation...
...founder of Colossus Hardware and Software Corporation. Halamka splits his time between studying microbiology and selling econometric computer programs to more than 20 clients, including. Nobel-lauerate economist Milton Friedman...