Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suffering from diabetes and failing eyesight. According to the attorney general, Mrs. Bigelow had a friend read her the will. She was unpleasantly surprised to find that Wright would get a share of the estate as executor. In addition, his wife Robyn was to inherit 25 shares of IBM stock, valued then at $10,250. Mrs. Bigelow promptly acquired a new attorney and a new will, and the Wrights got nothing when she died...
When the school transfer was ordered, Nephew, an IBM programmer, and some friends asked the pastor of St. Matthew's Roman Catholic Church for help. Father Leonard Burke organized the parents of about 200 children, most of whom continued to attend Fifield in defiance of the edict; school officials allowed them in the classrooms, though the children were not registered for credit. Picket lines were set up around the homes of school committeemen who had voted for the busing plan...
...been a long day for the back-to-school bunch, most of them in their mid-30s, a few older. They had caught an early-morning train, gone through their regular routines at corporations like Xerox, IBM and Bristol-Myers and now were being asked to absorb economic theory. But no one looked tired. The timetable on the 5:56 was clear enough: 76 minutes to Huntington on this evening, two years to an M.B.A., more prestige in the office and perhaps bigger salaries. The mood was positive...
...office in Media, Pa. The FBI learned that copies of the documents distributed to newspapers were made on Xerox machines, and Xerox executives, in Hoover's judgment, did not disclose enough about customers who used the Xerox machines. He proposed replacing all of the FBI Xerox machines with IBM equipment, and was dissuaded only when told it would cost millions...
Under government development policies that include a 15-year tax holiday on export profits and non-repayable cash grants of up to half the cost of plant and equipment, some 500 new factories have gone up in Ireland. About 350 are foreign-owned, and the roster includes IBM, General Electric and Olin from the U.S., Plessey from Britain, Switzerland's Oerlikon, South Africa's De Beers, The Netherlands' Verolme United Shipyards and Germany's Liebherr. The Irish Industrial Development Authority, under Michael Killeen, 43, a former head of the Irish Export Board, will spend about...