Word: ibm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jarring and seem altogether a little too precious: a toy robot is set adrift, a bunch of sneakered men are directed in sit-ups by a man in a hooded sweatshirt, and the courtiers at the meeting where Gaveston's exile is discussed are dressed as a bunch of IBM executives. In one mob scene a group of demonstrators wield placards that read "Gay desire is not a crime!" One wonders why they didn't go the whole nine yards and have such things plastered in boldface on Edward and Gaveston's t-shirts...
...businesses employing fewer than 150 workers have traditionally been the engineers of both economic growth and job creation. In the 1980s, they created over ten million jobs; today, while blue-chip corporations such as IBM and GM continue to lay off tens of thousands of workers, small businesses create 80 percent of new employment opportunities...
More important, the jobs being wiped out at giants like Kodak, McDonnell Douglas, IBM and General Motors are far better paid than the jobs opening up at companies still growing rapidly. Wal-Mart, the discount-store chain, created more jobs in the first 30 months of the recovery than any other company in the country, but they generally pay only about $5 to $9 an hour. PepsiCo is still expanding, but most of the new jobs are for those who feed the ovens at the company's Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and KFC fast-food restaurants. Result: many people...
...only powerful operating system for Intel-based PCs on the market these days. IBM's OS/2 2.1, probably NT's most serious competitor, features robust performance, excellent multi-tasking capabilities and flawless execution of MS-DOS programs. But its installation is a pain--you have to deal with 25 disks!--and it lacks a great many device drivers to support a wide class of peripherals...
...consensus, the world's best chess-playing machine is Deep Blues, formerly known as Deep Thought, a special hardware-software system built exclusively to play chess by a team of young researchers at IBM...