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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...perform such tasks as compiling payrolls, drawing graphs and creating reports. Until now, all the personal-computer software that IBM sold was produced by other companies. IBM's new programs will compete most directly with the popular ones sold by Lotus Development of Cambridge, Mass., and Ashton-Tate of Culver City, Calif. Some experts are confident that small companies can hold their own in the software competition because they are often more inventive than IBM, which is known more for its marketing prowess than its creativity. "IBM software is not likely to be on the leading edge," said Douglas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Blue Aims to Get Bigger | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

Make that North Americans. Seemingly, nothing could impede the march of two Canadians, Light Middleweight Shawn O'Sullivan, 22, and Heavyweight Willie deWit, 23, to the finals. The two white fighters were featured in promoter's-dream match-ups with black Americans Frank Tate, 19, and Tillman, 24. O'Sullivan's war with Tate was an Olympic highlight, a furious battle during which Tate was twice given standing eight counts before rallying to win unanimously. Earlier, O'Sullivan had been tattooed during the semifinals by a tough Frenchman named Christophe Tiozzo, and won only when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: GOLD TODAY, GREEN TOMORROW | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

Breland's early distraction may have been caused by yet another controversy. During the competition, Breland, McCrory and Tate left the team's training site, supervised by U.S. Coach Pat Nappi, to work with Emanuel Steward, their private tutor from Detroit's Kronk Gym, home to pros like Thomas Hearns. Indeed, the aura of proto-professionalism hung over the ring throughout the week. Fighters met the press in postfight interviews attended by their agents. Instead of boasting of their knockout prowess, they projected their income for 1987; rather than discussing Olympic strategy, they talked about how soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: GOLD TODAY, GREEN TOMORROW | 8/20/1984 | See Source »

...Fran Tate sells ice cubes to Eskimos for $3 a bag and sells out frequently. If she has her way, one day there will be a skating rink in Barrow. For now, Pepe's thrives. (Mervin Setoyant, for instance, eats there four times a week. "It's something different," he says with a bored shrug, contemplating his usual order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alaska: Where the Chili Is Chilly | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

Including Tate, Rowe, Gibber, Eusden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Lines on a Laureate-to-Be | 6/25/1984 | See Source »

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