Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would not induce consumers to spend enough. The public would be inclined to buy more, he says, if personal exemptions were swiftly increased, standard deductions raised, and people were given a tax credit equal to 2% of their earnings up to $14,100 a year. Moreover, David Grove of IBM believes, the Administration's plan to divide the rebate into two payments would further weaken its stimulative impact...
...willing to learn fast. As recently as last spring, Bok would have been bewildered by this fall's memos. "That's disappointing," he remarked, referring to an earlier question about criticisms of the University as too much like a corporation. "Are there still these people raising this analogy to IBM and that sort of thing...
...Independence. The exhibition features photographs, paintings, documents and artifacts, including a hulking 3,500-Ib. stuffed buffalo-a symbol of the vast, unmapped Western territory that Jefferson bought in the Louisiana Purchase after becoming President. Following trips to Warsaw and London, the show, which is being underwritten by IBM, will come to the U.S. in March...
...prison. Instead, he hopes that the Governor will find his unusual accomplishments a mark of rehabilitation and cut his life sentence to 25 years, thus making him immediately eligible for parole. Deep into the night, residents along the catwalk of 3 Tier can hear Mosiello working away at an IBM Selectric in his book-packed 5-ft. by 7-ft. cell. Like any other ambitious executive, he hopes his overtime labors are a signal to his superiors that he is ready for upward, to say nothing of outward mobility. Says the mustached lifer: "I didn't find a home...
Although the pilot systems now in operation are made by several companies (among them: IBM, National Cash Register Co., Sperry Univac) and have varying capabilities, they all flash each purchase on a screen mounted at the check-out counter and produce a tape listing each item by product and price at the end of the sale. The computers keep track of which items are subject to sales taxes, to cents-off promotions, to Sunday sales bans and even to Food and Drug Administration health warnings...