Word: ironization
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...even IBM could withstand the seismic shifts that rocked the industry in the early 1990s. As personal computers increased in power, many customers began moving their data-processing chores to smaller, desktop systems. The shock waves bent many "big iron" manufacturers out of shape, including Prime Computer and Control Data Corp., which stopped making mainframes after heavy losses. Many companies like Wang Laboratories and Unisys have largely switched from hardware to software. The biggest fallen giant is Digital Equipment Corp., which last week reported a larger than expected quarterly loss of $66 million. Once the No. 2 computer maker after...
...turbulent Sixties, but there is still only one African American from Alabama in Congress. Despite a Democratic surge during the Wallace era, voters in the Camellia State still lean toward the g.o.p. as space-age communities like Huntsville grow and heavy industry, attracted by the state's red, iron-filled soil, declines...
...serving as an adviser to retiring Senator William Cohen, she ran a regional office of the SBA and was director of the Center for Family Business at Husson College in Bangor. She supports a cut in estate taxes and has fought to preserve funding for destroyers built at Bath Iron Works, Maine's largest employer. The G.O.P.would like to keep this Senate seat, but beating Joe Brennan is no piece of cake...
ANDY LARSON (R) District 8 (Northeast--Iron Range; Duluth...
...iron-ore miner, Oberstar has an unflinching belief in the good of government. He voted against NAFTA, and as a member of the Aviation Subcommittee, he helped arrange KLM's investment in Northwest Airlines and its repair facilities in Duluth and the Iron Range. He parallels his district's conservative values, opposing both gun control and abortion...