Word: shifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...recent years, IBM has lost share in market after market, including personal computers. But the massive cuts are mainly a signal that IBM is finally acknowledging a fundamental change in its core mainframe-computer business. For years, Big Blue has tried to ignore the market's shift away from the closet-size number crunchers to less expensive but powerful desktop computers and workstations. Now declining sales of mainframes have forced IBM to face up to the transition...
...about 60% of its profits. Margins on large systems were as high as 70%, although recent price competition has reduced margins to about 50%. But with sales slowing and price pressure mounting, IBM has finally faced up to the trend. Last week Akers signaled IBM's intention to shift away from its mainframe business, which is down 10% this year. Most of the $1 billion reduction in R. and D. will occur in mainframe development. IBM, he said, will rely more on workstations to serve as the central host for PC networks. "The computer industry is in a time...
...some provinces, the continental shift already seems to be yielding benefits. As federal funds have dried up, Ottawa has cut back heavy subsidies to Canada's have-not regions. Nonetheless, hardscrabble New Brunswick last year registered 3% growth, more than any other province. Frank McKenna, the provincial premier, attributes much of the gain to the reduction of trade barriers among the Atlantic provinces and to growing opportunities for export to the U.S. "The launching of free trade has reshaped our relationships with the federal government in many ways," he says. "But overall, our experience has been positive. It means working...
...rode around okay for a while and finally we stopped at Baskin Robbins. Then, he suddenly looked at his watch, and said `Why don't you just drive my shift this time?' and left the bus. I wound up doing his run without having any idea where anything was," he says...
...situations of his eternal travelers: his sentences wind their way around line and stanza breaks, often avoiding consistent, literal reference, turning the normal finalities or fixedness of cliches and buzzwords into things entirely strange. The poems are always about identifiable states of mind, but scenes and referents often shift, vanish or blur to better reflect the minds which contain them...