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Meanwhile, the profit squeeze is producing some changes at IBM. It is hoping to reduce its U.S. work force 5%, to 230,000, by the end of next year, mainly through attrition and early-retirement incentives. On a more trifling level, Big Blue has pared spending on such items as...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill proposed raising taxes to pay for a $1.6 billion bill -- a sure non-starter in an election year. His lieutenants wanted to raise the necessary funds by nicking every Government program for an infinitesimal amount. No way, said Senate colleagues; their favorite programs had already...
Many of the conditions that fostered the rise of the discount carriers no longer prevail. Right after deregulation, the major airlines were at a serious disadvantage: during the time they were protected by the Government from competition, they had become high-cost, unionized operations. In the previous 40 years, the...
While the Super Bowl and exams last week grabbed much of the attention, a pared-down version of the Harvard wrestling team participated in the New England Collegiate tournament Sunday at MIT.
"Camelot, costalot, cutalot" was how its first Broadway director described his own production. Neher and crew chose to avoid extravagance in favor of a minimalist approach: a single bare set--a platform with a "throne" on one end and a ladder on the other--instead of 16 different sets, a...