Word: ibm
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...event was headlined by a keynote address from Rev. Jesse L. Jackson and was moderated by Lt. Gov. A. Paul Cellucci. The panel of judges was a Who's Who at Harvard, including Dean of the Kennedy School Joseph S. Nye Jr., IBM Professor of Business and Government Roger B. Porter and Undergraduate Council President Lamelle D. Rawlins...
...VanAlstyne, a manager for IBM-Lotus, said that IBM tries to recruit a diverse staff and that he likes to see clues in a resume that indicate an applicant is homosexual...
When VanAlstyne told his coordinator that he was gay, the coordinator immediately enlisted VanAlstyne's help for a campaign inside IBM to obtain health care benefits for homosexual employees' partners...
Back in the 1960s, at the same time that the Beatles were wailing about the Taxman ("If you drive a car, I'll tax the street/If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat"), the men at the IRS, in their IBM white shirts and skinny ties, were at the cutting edge of computer technology. The IRS had automated its processing system, eventually gathering everything into 10 service centers, with a computer nucleus in West Virginia. For the first time, taxpayers were required to write their Social Security number on their return. Computers, it seemed, could keep track...
...immediate jump. And there's no guarantee that the newly added companies will continue to do well or that others on the list won't hit hard times. Prestbo warns, "Moving companies in and out of the Dow is not the same as a buy-sell decision." Consider IBM, which was dropped in 1939 but went on to post 29 stock splits and rise 21,843% before being added back...