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...display in the meetings about computer systems--not another one!--at offices and factories alike are body talk expressing fear of machines, and IBM sees a huge business in making that emotion go away. Digital change has evolved from an amusing walk toward the future to an all-out sprint. FORTUNE 500 CEOs feel they are running for their life when it comes to technology decisions, and the race is distracting them from their real businesses. "Companies are realizing that they want to do what they do and not information technology," says Thoman...
...commercial printer, of all places--to find John Walter, its new president and heir apparent to CEO Robert Allen, who will retire in 1998, two years early. "When one of the world's largest companies loses its president and can't find anyone inside, what's going on?" asks Sprint CEO William Esrey...
Across the U.S., perplexed citizens are asking the same question. In the wake of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, corporate giants like PrimeCo, AT&T and Sprint are racing to set up the networks of radio antennas that are required by the next generation of wireless communications services. Soon, enthusiasts promise, my neighbors and I will be able to stroll through a suburban mall--or a nearby forest preserve--while sending faxes, retrieving E-mail, even accessing the World Wide...
...there are few signs that the breakup has put the core business into better shape to meet cutthroat competition. Anyone turning on a radio or TV, answering the phone or picking up the mail these days has to fend off endless pleas from AT&T and competitors--MCI and Sprint are the biggest--to switch his or her long-distance calls from one carrier to another. Or pleas not to switch. Or to switch back...
...disease forever--a succession of small, incremental improvements shows promise of pushing the death rate down. Already doctors have learned how to keep the disease at bay for months, and sometimes even to produce complete remissions that may last for years. "We're running a marathon, not a sprint," observes Dr. Eugenie Kleinerman, a pediatric oncologist at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "What's important is not how fast we run the first two miles but when we cross the finish line...