Word: ibm
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...THERE'S ONE THING that H. Ross Perot is, he's master salesman. From his days as a sales prodigy at IBM to his legendary sale of a school reform plan to the Texas legislature, Perot has built his reputation on using a combination of pressure, money and "commonsense" persuasion to make the hard sell...
...career, Perot has endeared himself to Main Street America partly by the enemies he has chosen. The son of a small-town cotton broker in Texarkana, Texas, Perot attended the U.S. Naval Academy, spent four years in the Navy and then in 1957 joined the white-shirted brigades of IBM as a computer salesman. The Perot myth was born when he broke with the rigid corporate culture and inflexible commission system of IBM in 1962 to found EDS -- and became a just-folks billionaire seven years later, shortly after he took his company public. During the 1970s, Perot tangled with...
...Among the first to be issued on disk are Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, Melville's Moby Dick and Dickens' David Copperfield. The disks, priced below $25, are designed to run on Apple's portable PowerBook computers, which are widely considered to be more reader-friendly than IBM-type laptops...
...IBM estimates that software duplication, especially in countries with weak antipiracy laws, causes the company to lose more than $1 billion in sales each year...
...facade of the department store GUM would cost a U.S. firm (might it interest Wrigley's?) $400,000. The Moscow historical museum is available (possibly the spot for an IBM ad on random-access memory?) for $250,000. Lenin's marble mausoleum is respectfully excluded from the deal, but two slogan-bearing blimps (for a cold-storage company?) floating above it will go for $60,000 each. A few firms nibbled last week, but none bit. The lead time may turn out to be too short for signing contracts and getting big American ads up by May Day. Even...