Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many of them are furious. In the U.S. alone, more than 2,000 have filed lawsuits against the makers of computer equipment. Two big cases -- a multimillion-dollar suit by four newspaper reporters who developed RSI while using the Atex word-processing system, and a similar challenge to IBM -- are expected to go to court this fall. "It's not just typists, it's artists, blacksmiths, hairdressers, massage therapists and people in dozens of other professions," says Stephanie Barnes, a former secretary and RSI victim who went on to found the Association for Repetitive Motion Syndromes, based in Santa Rosa...
...IBM PC-compatible...
...past 12 months -- that subscribers complained of busy signals and its stock was whipsawed by takeover rumors (the most recent: that cable-TV mogul John Malone wants to buy a big stake). Even Prodigy, the troubled online service that has reportedly swallowed $1 billion of its co-owners' (IBM and Sears) shrinking capital, seems to have turned the corner and is finally showing a profit...
...even as ordinary Berliners were toasting the departing American soldiers, a few blocks away Germany's business leaders were greeting a star-studded U.S. corporate delegation eager to get the new era of peace and prosperity off to a lucrative start. Among the Americans: General Motors ceo John Smith, IBM chairman Louis Gerstner, Goldman Sachs chief Stephen Friedman, Motorola's Robert Galvin, Morgan Stanley's Richard Fisher and Dwayne Andreas of Archer-Daniels-Midland. Said U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Holbrooke: "For almost five decades in the postwar period, the relationship ((between the U.S. and Europe)) was basically military...
...boom. They range from Microsoft, which last fall launched a fast-growing line called Microsoft Home that puts out education, entertainment and reference products, to such start- ups as Big Top Productions, a San Francisco software designer with 26 employees that has introduced seven titles since January. IBM too has begun to focus on the kid market with such recent CD-ROM titles as The Book of Shadowboxes: A Story of the ABCs, an introduction to the alphabet. Even such blood-and-guts video-game makers as Sega and Electronic Arts are jumping into the field. Electronic Arts...