Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news has been the rush by drug manufacturers to acquire large distribution networks that keep medicine prices down by buying in bulk. Last month Eli Lilly agreed to pay $4 billion for McKesson's PCS Health Systems, which provides drugs at deeply discounted prices to HMOS and insurance plans. The move followed Merck's 1993 acquisition of Medco, another national outlet. Such mergers worry some health-care experts. "Why would hospitals now want to deal with Medco?" asks Alan Shapiro, a finance professor at the University of Southern California business school. "Hospitals and HMOS dealt with it in the past...
...networks to handle the freight of the information superhighway. Today's personal computers are too low-powered -- and the modems that connect them to the phone lines too slow -- to transmit and process video signals in real time, as they are broadcast. Even if everybody were to replace their PCs with the new, more powerful models coming into the market, someone would still have to build an electronic highway fast and wide enough to carry the traffic...
Once that switched, broadband network is built, it won't matter much what people plug into it -- TVs, PCs or some device that hasn't been invented. Like that of the telephone system before it, the power of the information highway will come from the new ways it allows people to connect, not with machines but with each other. And for that privilege, even the most stubborn couch potato might agree to get wired...
...compatible machines; such chips are now in more than one-quarter of the world's 110 million personal computers. Also coveted is the newer and faster Intel Pentium chip, which the Santa Clara, California-based company recently developed to run the latest generation of IBM PCs. In all, thieves last year ripped off up to $40 million worth of chips from California's Silicon Valley, according...
Moreover, the much-ballyhooed Microsoft Windows compatibility provided by the SoftWindows system, which comes along with the computer, is laughable. Though the literature claims Windows performance comparable to Intel 80486SX-based PCs, I found the interface to be noticeably jerky when maneuvering the mouse...