Word: ibm
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...also senses biases related to worth: "A 60-year-old man is president of IBM; a woman of 60 is not. A 60-year-old man may want to go back to full-time work, and many 60-year-old women are not considered as important in life...
Even mighty IBM has caught the fever. The world's largest computer maker was slow to respond to the rounds of price cutting this summer, and as a result its share of the personal-computer market slipped precipitously. But Big Blue's freshly restructured PC division showed a new nimbleness last week. The day after Compaq's latest price cut, IBM unveiled its long-awaited PS/ ValuePoint series: a line of desktop computers aimed at high-volume corporate buyers and priced to sell for less than comparable Compaq machines -- in one case, exactly $5 less...
...HOPE AT IBM WAS THAT the company would put to rest some charges, long voiced by occupational-safety groups, that work in a semiconductor plant is dangerous. But preliminary results of a study by Johns Hopkins researchers, commissioned by the computer giant, show that women exposed to two chemicals employed in making silicon chips have a much higher risk of suffering miscarriages. Among 30 women who handled chemicals at IBM plants in New York and Vermont from 1980 to 1989, the miscarriage rate was 33%, more than double that of women who had no contact with the chemicals diethylene glycol...
...will have to disclose in unprecedented detail how much their top executives earn, as well as tell stockholders how those pay packages were determined. The rules are the latest effort in a movement by stockholder groups and politicians to curb excessive pay and perks. Shareholders at 43 corporations, including IBM, Bell Atlantic and Chrysler, challenged CEO compensation this year. And at least two pay-disclosure bills have been introduced in Congress...
...century and a new millennium. The imminence of this extraordinary occasion inspired us to devote an entire special issue to the tantalizing future before us and the great events that have set the stage for it. We are happy that our plans for this project appealed so much to IBM that it offered to become the sole advertiser for this issue...