Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...speaking of the outfield, the loss of Dave Singleton, who played a gifted center field last season, to IBM or minor league baseball will not weaken the strong nucleus of returnees. Either converted pitcher Peter Bannish or junior Jim Peccerillo, back from a year off, should be Singleton's equal offensively and more than competent defensively...
...companies and the Vorster government. Employing the same criteria used in United Nations estimates, the Clark subcommittee decided that the 13 largest American firms in South Africa are General Motors, Mobil Oil, Exxon, Standard Oil of California, Ford Motor Co., ITT, General Electric, Chrysler, Firestone, Goodyear, 3-M, IBM and Caterpillar. Harvard owns stock in nine of these 13 firms, with a total value of over $200 million as of June, 1977, out of a $1.5 billion investment portfolio...
...shows--on the faces of old men, in the dim solace of Eastie bars, in the punk energy--that there are people in this new age who are not part of the burgeoning wave of IBM and mechanization and mass transportation...
...programmed into the computer's brain, just as nature programmed them into our ancestors' brains as a part of the equipment for survival. For example, computers, like people, work better and learn faster when they are motivated. Arthur Samuel made this discovery when he taught two IBM computers how to play checkers. They polished their game by playing each other, but they learned slowly. Finally, Dr. Samuel programmed in the will to win by forcing the computers to try harder -and to think out more moves in advance-when they were losing. Then the computers learned very quickly...
...also relentless. Superior's success at sniffing out crude deposits has made it a darling of the New York Stock Exchange; last week its shares shot up 18 points to hit 279 and thus become the highest priced stock on the Big Board, ahead of IBM. Highly profitable (earnings were $51 million in 1976), Superior reportedly offered 100% pay increases to some Mobil runaways...