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...expertise was more a source of irony than comfort. He had lived an active Los Angeles life, liked running, was looking forward to settling down. I was ready to find someone and fall in love. All the pieces in my life were in place. All the pieces had now fallen apart, and no amount of psychotherapy could stick him back together again. Realistically, there is no cure, and this type of life is not acceptable...
...mighty have fallen. While most of the industry is enjoying a renaissance, the world's largest computer company is being overwhelmed by an array of problems in one market after another. Its mainframe business, the core of the company, is being undermined by microchip miracles that make today's low-cost desktops as powerful as yesterday's closetfuls. Its lead in personal computers has evaporated. Its supremacy in computer chips is a mere memory. In software, upstart companies that didn't exist a little more than a decade ago are running rings around the 78-year-old behemoth. And even...
...network of as many as 10,000 "dumb" ( desktop terminals. The market for these behemoths regularly grew 15% a year, but sales have slowed to 4% since 1990 as customers have turned to less expensive but powerful personal computers and linked workstations. Many manufacturers of large systems have already fallen victim to this irreversible change. In August, Wang Laboratories was forced to file for bankruptcy. Unisys, the by-product of the merger of Burroughs and Sperry, nearly went under after it suffered $2.5 billion in losses in 1989 through 1991. Huge losses also nearly claimed Digital Equipment, whose board ousted...
...Fallen Giants...
...them as far as I can throw the Washington Monument. Some of these kids have known only violence. It's like entering a lion's cage with steak in all your pockets -- you come out all chewed up." Moments later, he is comforting a fifth-grade boy who has fallen on the playground...