Word: sways
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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...
...employees) squarely in the lap of the Attorney General, Knight-Ridder is gambling that Meese will have no choice but to save the paper. To up the odds, the company has launched an all-out public relations blitz designed to win over local opponents and to sway Meese. After last week's board meeting, Chapman scheduled private meetings with leaders of the paper's unions and Mayor Coleman Young, who has already hinted that he may abandon his opposition to the plan. Free Press Publisher David Lawrence triggered a ground swell of support with a front-page editorial asking readers...
Certainly, Ortega has used well-timed gestures in the past to sway Congress. Shortly after the Reagan Administration made known its intent last September to seek $270 million in contra funding, Ortega went on a public-relations offensive. He announced the reopening of two opposition news outlets, the newspaper La Prensa and Radio Catolica, and pardoned 16 jailed rebel sympathizers. Sensing defeat, the U.S. Administration scaled back its request to just $30 million. Still, Ortega pressed on. He agreed to indirect talks with the contras and designated Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo as the mediator. In the end, Congress granted...
...impresario is all but ended in the commercial theater. Practically everything that comes to Broadway nowadays is funded by committee and imported wholesale from somewhere else. Off-Broadway, however, the American theater's boldest, most ambitious, quirkiest, most pedantic and at times most infuriating showman holds sway more forcefully than ever. Joseph Papp has built, at the New York Shakespeare Festival, a personal barony more than an institution. Although he sometimes describes his $14 million annual operation as the biggest "regional" theater in the nation, its six-theater complex and staff of 125 stand in the shadows of his outsize...
...What it comes down to is an issue of power," said Harvard Professor Eric Arnesen at the meeting. So if workers vote to create a union, it will be to a large extent the union which will hold sway over their jobs and their lives. If on the other hand, they vote to oppose the union, then the University will hold this power...