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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Technical excellence and a shrewd appreciation of its customers' needs helped the International Business Machines Corp. capture most of the world computer market. But critics charge that IBM's policy of controlling all aspects of operations, from manufacturing to maintenance, has unfairly helped to sustain its dominance. That policy got IBM into trouble with the U.S. Justice Department, which in 1969 charged the company with monopolistic practices in a suit that is now in the trial stage. Last week officials in another country-India-discovered just how dear IBM holds its 100% philosophy. Rather than allow a minority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: IBM Withdraws from India | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

Johnson got the idea for the company after seeing how "awful" the freshman mixer was, he said yesterday. Johnson decided "there was a market for some good parties," he added...

Author: By Susan H. Goldstein, | Title: Party Planner | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

...F.D.A. cleared Pneumovax for market early next year. The vaccine has proven in tests to be about 80 per cent effective...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Vaccine | 11/23/1977 | See Source »

...price. Gulf Chairman Jerry McAfee says sarcastically: "The company sold short some 60 million pounds of uranium and now is attempting to win court sanction for breaking its commitments. I think they are entitled to the same right that any commodity speculator enjoys when he has badly misjudged the market"-presumably meaning the right to go broke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Energy: The Uranium Cartel's Fallout | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

...market is there. U.S. wine consumption has increased by almost 60% in this decade. This year or next, for the first time, Americans will down more wine than hard liquor.* Wine already outsells spirits in nine states: Arizona California, Idaho, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Shaking California's Throne | 11/21/1977 | See Source »

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