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...performance. For many IBMers, the company's announcement last week that it may abandon its no-layoffs policy merely formalized what Big Blue has already been doing. Although IBM largely relied on attrition and early-retirement programs to reduce its labor force by 100,000 from a peak of 406,300 workers in 1985, the company began de facto layoffs last year through a new employee- evaluation process that grades workers according to internal goals. Those who haven't measured up have been fired...
They voice complaints with the shuttle system that range from overcrowding at peak hours to a dearth of service at other times...
Jewett said he agrees with the present policy because there should not be any distractions "during periods of peak academic stress...
...weeks, college sports will hit its peak. Hockey will be grabbing attention and basketball even more...
...their peak in the late 1980s, Soviet forces, if they did not actually dominate the world, were certainly capable of destroying it. Moscow boasted an army of more than 4 million soldiers, an air force with thousands of planes, four surface fleets and the world's largest flotilla of submarines. Most formidable of all were its 1,400 land-based intercontinental missiles tipped with nuclear warheads. While most of the world regarded this arsenal with dread, Soviet citizens proudly viewed it as a symbol of national greatness...