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Fiorina and Compaq CEO Michael Capellas spent the week trying to assure everyone that the math would add up to 3. To get there, she could do worse than to follow in the footsteps of Lou Gerstner. The IBM chief inherited a company torn by turf wars and paralyzed by too many products in the early '90s. Gerstner healed wounds, cut the sprawl and scaled back the low-margin consumer-PC business, focusing instead on supremely stable high-end servers and the lucrative service contracts that came with them. "IBM is proof that it can be turned around," says Tony...
...Women's Equality Day, a sweltering Sunday afternoon at a Unitarian church in Boca Raton. You can tell it is Janet Reno's turf by the way the National Organization for Women crowd hangs on every word of the first female U.S. Attorney General. Whoever the first female U.S. President is, Reno says, she will listen more closely to "all Americans, like the single mother who feels alone and frustrated." But then Reno says something that leaves the N.O.W. women, dressed in suffragist purple, looking puzzled. She talks about "the young white man who wants to be an FBI agent...
...wedge between labor and its traditional allies. The courtship is not limited to the Teamsters, whom the President will address this week. Carpenters will also get a stop. Two weeks ago, Bush spoke to members of the steelworkers union. "This is all a part of playing on the Democrats' turf," says a senior Bush adviser, "or making them defend...
...Jimmy Carter adopted a no-frills approach designed to save taxpayer money by catering to an average of $4.50 a plate (by 1977 prices). So Canada's Pierre Trudeau got a simple surf and turf selection of Alaskan crab and roast lamb, while British Prime Minister James Callaghan was given the standard British Sunday lunch menu of roast beef and Yorkshire pudding (what, no mushy peas...
...transformation," the less they cared for it. As an admiral said last week, "Like it or not, the current strategy resonates with most people here. It's better to be engaged overseas than to have to die [in combat]. We like that. When we're engaged, we know the turf and we know the allies. Pulling out takes all that away...