Word: soul
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...remains tormented, as factions within the world's largest computer maker (revenues: $63 billion) fight for its very soul. Just last week Robert Corrigan, 53, whom IBM watchers credit with turning around the company's vital personal-computer business, abruptly declared he would take early retirement next month. The announcement marked the second high-level departure in as many weeks. Earlier, Gerald Czarnecki resigned as the IBM executive in charge of slashing the company's bloated work force and unbuttoning its culture, amid reports that he had been proceeding too slowly to please his superiors...
...tasty and sharp, but it lasts only a few licks. Then there's the other kind of cool, the kind you get from resting in the shadow of a big oak tree on a summer day. That kind reaches down to your bones, and it even touches your soul: that old oak tree is noble and enduring...
...Fermilab auditorium, and the result sometimes resembles pandemonium. The 152-page paper reporting evidence for the top quark was sent off to the Physical Review two weeks ago. It could have been submitted two months ago, but questions erupted from members of the collaboration that triggered further soul searching and the insertion of more caveats...
...family of underachievers, the Simpsons have achieved quite a bit. In the show, Homer has been a monorail conductor and a baseball mascot; he won a Grammy (for Outstanding Soul, Spoken Word or Barbershop Album) and survived eating a deadly blowfish. Marge sang Blanche Dubois in the musical O Streetcar! Lisa created her own talking doll, mastered the saxophone and the Talmud, was a Junior Miss Springfield, uncovered political corruption and saved the Republic. Bart adopted an elephant, fell down a well and was rescued by Sting, and was tried for murdering Principal Skinner. Maggie had her first word voiced...
They are the soul of the personal computer and worth more than their weight in gold or cocaine. Small wonder then that these tiny, high-tech chips have become the latest target of the international crime set. A few tales from the cyberfront: in Greenock, Scotland, three knife-wielding masked men overpowered a factory guard last month and stole $3.7 million worth of chips and related computer parts; in Fremont, California, burglars disarmed a security system and made off with more than $1.8 million of chips and computer equipment in a January warehouse heist. And outside Portland, Oregon, five gunmen...