Word: standardization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While IBM still carries heavy clout in the market for large mainframe computers, the company is getting bullied in two important product categories: personal and midsize machines. With its PCs holding sway as the industry's standard for business applications, IBM once commanded nearly 40% of the $25 billion personal-computer market. Today, IBM's share has shrunk to less than 30% as its recent models have suffered assaults from competing formats like Apple's versatile Macintosh. IBM's newest line of personal computers, the Personal System/2, got off to an initially promising start after its introduction last April, selling...
...standard interpretation of The Cherry Orchard is, in the phrase of Critic Robert Brustein, as a "melodramatic conflict between a despoiler and $ his victims." The purported despoiler is Lopakhin, an upstart peasant turned real estate developer who plans to raze the family's mansion and orchard to create a cottage camp for vacationers. In place of this tragic vision of culture under attack, some Soviet productions have hailed Lopakhin as a visionary forerunner of the people's state. Either way, the play becomes didactic, and its undeniably comic moments work at the expense of its humanity...
...policy is meant to "even out the flow of [transfer] students, thereby accommodating more" of them, said Georgine B. Herschbach, assistant dean of the College and director of the Office of Special Programs. Spring admissions are standard at most other universities...
...rate on capital gains -- the five-year economic boom, the resurgence of patriotism. Then the President also planned an ode to the Nicaraguan "freedom fighters." And of course there was a section of budget-deficit blues, a put- the-blame-on-Congress thumper ending with that ancient standard: the call for a line-item veto...
...athletes and artists are so eager for a taste of capitalist comforts that they sometimes bribe officials in the state talent agencies to secure foreign contracts. Small though the performers' share of the fee may be, it is often enough to buy a Western automobile and finance a princely standard of living when they return home. But most who venture west seek fame as well as fortune. "In Poland I would pass my whole career almost unknown," says Polish Tenor Dariusz Walendowski, 32, an operetta singer who pays the Polish government's Pagart agency 15% of his average...