Word: pcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obsessive subject of our increasingly sterile confrontation between the two PCs -- the politically and the patriotically correct -- is something clumsily called multiculturalism. America is a place filled with diversity, unsettled histories, images impinging on one another and spawning unexpected shapes. Its polyphony of voices, its constant eddying of claims to identity, is one of the things that make America America. The gigantic, riven, hybridizing, multiracial republic each year receives a major share of the world's emigration, legal or illegal...
CAPTION: MARRYING TVs, CDs AND PCs...
...addition, the network permits students to hook their computers to Internet, a computer connection that links Macs and PCs to electronic texts, databases and mainframes across the country and around the world...
While they have purchased audio players and video recorders, people have by and large shunned high-tech products and services like personal computers and electronic shopping. While big corporations were infected with PC mania during the 1980s, households remained largely immune. There are far fewer homes with PCs than analysts predicted, much to the chagrin of manufacturers like IBM and Commodore. Another loser: the picture telephone. First introduced by AT&T at the 1964 New York World's Fair, it allows callers to see as well as hear each other. But consumers considered the device...
...neither IBM nor Apple has been able to halt customer defections. IBM's market share in PCs has dropped by half, to 23%, while Apple's has declined to 15%, from 18%. The changing marketplace has forced both companies to make some painful adjustments. In the largest layoff in the company's history, Apple will pare 1,500 jobs from its payroll this summer, a reduction of about 10%. The company is expected to post an earnings decline for the past quarter, largely because of price cutting. IBM, which during the January-March period reported the first quarterly loss...