Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...computing are launching a new effort to develop an ultrathin, power-packed chip able to process data efficiently. Any such progress in speed is a boon for those trying to get video, pictures and the other ingredients of multimedia up and running on the info highway. The consortium of IBM, AT&T, Motorola and Loral intends to produce a chip about half the width of those used currently...
...through the city's Private Industry Council for the past 11 years, there is no lack of interest -- only a lack of jobs. This year 3,500 youths applied for 1,400 positions. Dietrice Bigby, 20, took advantage of the program two years ago by going to work for IBM as an assistant secretary. Today she is an IBM customer-service coordinator and hopes to be promoted to customer engineer this year...
...covers topics ranging from AIDS profiteering to pets on Prozac. In one of the series' typical segments, Moore stands outside the offices of various corporate chiefs and uses a megaphone to ask them to come down and perform simple tasks their employees carry out every day. Louis Gerstner of IBM is challenged to format a computer disk; he doesn't respond. But Ford's Alex Trotman does agree to change the oil in a jeep. After he completes the chore, Moore, referring to a Ford slogan, asks him, "If quality is job one, what is job two?" Trotman responds earnestly...
While gays have faced uneven results in the political arena, especially at the national level, they have made great strides in the seemingly less inviting world of private business. Hundreds of companies, including IBM, Eastman Kodak, Harley-Davidson, Dow Chemical, Du Pont, 3M and Time Warner, have specific policies banning discrimination based on sexual orientation. Many, ranging from the Wall Street law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy to the insurer Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, provide health or other benefits for gay employees' partners. Such old-line companies as Union Carbide and Colgate-Palmolive hire consultants to teach...
...community leaders were invited to accompany a school principal for one day to get better acquainted with the city's schools and their problems. Among the participants: New York Governor Mario Cuomo, Wall Street executive Henry Kravis, NBC newscaster Jane Pauley and senior executives from American Express, Motorola and IBM...