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...over the top job in 1981, the sandy-haired chairman has been intent on revamping GM into an agile performer that can compete successfully against the Japanese. To reach that goal, he has been creating more daring deals than any of his predecessors since the 1920s, when Alfred P. Sloan Jr. welded a jumble of companies into the modern...
Smith is due to stay on as chairman until 1990, when he reaches the mandatory-retirement age of 65. That would give him a 10 1/2-year reign, the longest since that of Alfred P. Sloan Jr., who ruled from 1937 to 1956 and developed GM's structure and strategy. Based on his first five years, Smith's impact at General Motors may be as great as Sloan...
...Committee on the Records of Government was established in 1973 by the Council on Library Resources, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Social Science Research Council. The work of the committee is supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation...
...done this way: He would get the name of the dead person. If the man was "James Doe," he would go to the phone and call his downtown office and say, "James Roe" is dead. The downtown coroner would say "got it." He would write down "James Sloan" on his list of dead people. Then he would call a newsman and say "Blain Cohen is dead." And the next day, Blain Cohen would read it in the paper and have a heart attack. Then the deputy coroner would go to Blain Cohen's house and write down, "James...
While technological advances are increasing the necessity for uninterrupted computing services, they are at the same time making that guarantee more difficult to assure. A moment's reflection on the Sloan-Kettering case described above shows why; whereas ten years ago access to computers was limited in most cases to users who could get into a terminal room, today anyone with an inexpensive personal (or "micro") computer and a modem (a device that allows computers to communicate over telephone lines) can access the majority of computers in the United States. [Its computer security] becoming more and more critical because...