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Private companies have enthusiastically followed the federal lead in testing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that 43% of the nation's largest firms, including IBM, AT&T and 3M, have implemented drug-screening programs for job applicants, employees or both. Last week's high-court rulings have no direct legal bearing on most private companies, but the decisions are expected to encourage industry to increase testing...
...Although it's a great deal of work, it is far preferable to the IBM method used at Yale," said Watson in a 1959 reference to the New Haven university's policy of random housing...
...short time after that article circulated through the cellblocks, an irate inmate struck the editor across the head with a chair. The complaint triggered the editor's early retirement, leaving Taliaferro in charge of two secondhand IBM computers and a small staff working in an office the size of a large bathroom. But the prestige of the job is considerable...
...their wares on display. Motorola rolled out a new line of workstations with up to 60 times the power of a PC. Data General may have started a price war by introducing a workstation for $7,450, far less than the typical $20,000 $ cost. Meanwhile, industry giants IBM and Digital Equipment were trying to rev up interest in their latest models. All these competitors are trying to knock off Sun Microsystems, the clear leader in the workstation business. Launched only in 1982, the Mountain View, Calif., firm has become a billion-dollar company on the strength...
Major players in the RISC-chip business include Sun Microsystems, MIPS, IBM, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola. Last week Intel, the world's largest microprocessor manufacturer, put its seal of approval on the workstation revolution by introducing a million-transistor chip that incorporates RISC technology...