Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Given this limitation, you must hone down your resume to its bare bones. Bag the mention of 12 years of violin lessons. Play up the three days you spent as a temp at IBM. If it feels like you are making value judgements about what experiences are important to you, it's because...
...makers cannot bring themselves to collaborate. Their deep-down resistance to joint efforts came to the surface last week with the scuttling of U.S. Memories, a consortium formed seven months ago by American firms to compete in the Japanese-dominated market for memory chips. With such powerful backers as IBM and Digital Equipment, U.S. Memories planned to build a $1 billion plant to produce chips for everything from personal computers to missile-guidance systems. But a worldwide glut of memory chips, which has pushed prices lower, prompted many would-be investors to back out of the project...
...Alumni Association candidate John A. Armstrong '56, who is IBM's vice president for science and technology, sees the Board's role a little differently...
Most improbable and intriguing of all, Strasser is being permitted to apply his fluent vision -- joyfully modernist, austere but playful, reasoned, practical, never grim -- to the interiors of huge blue-chip office hives. He recently finished a 1.2 million-sq.-ft., multibuilding IBM outpost near Dallas, and construction has begun in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., on a two-block- long office building for a giant entertainment company. "I don't assume a corporation is conservative and conventional," he says. "I don't feel that as soon as they say 'corporate,' you have to do chickenshit work...
...take a modest budget as an excuse to make a space cheap looking and characterless. Computer Associates' elevator banks are artful black-and-white geometric compositions reminiscent of the Viennese secessionists and feature handsome light fixtures on the walls -- short, exposed fluorescent bulbs only partly shielded by rectangular flanges. IBM's bigger budget permitted Strasser to design even more perfectly realized industrial sconces, each a chunk of aluminum appended to a smaller Lucite chunk...