Word: peppier
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which the company reduced its work force by 16,000 jobs, to about 400,000 total. At the same time, some 20,000 workers were transferred, often from cushy staff jobs to more grinding assignments in sales and service. Akers is thus trying to give the company a peppier, more entrepreneurial feeling, even renaming the product groups to give them pizazz not normally seen at IBM. Example: the Information Systems & Storage Group will be rechristened IBM Enterprise Systems. What's more, a new generation of top management is emerging. One notable leader is Ellen Hancock, 44, who in taking over...
Last year's peppier bond sales still ran far below the $7.8 billion pace of 1978. Nonetheless, Treasury officials are convinced that the savings bond is on its way back to being a blue-chip investment and a superb stocking stuffer...