Word: units
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sold more than 3 million PS/2 computers worldwide in the past 18 months, but the company is lagging behind its rivals in growth. While competitors are expected to sell 11.6 million machines this year, 26% more than in 1987, IBM's unit sales are likely to grow 18%. Even though minicomputers and mainframes account for the bulk of IBM's total revenues ($54.2 billion in 1987) and PCs for only 10%, the desktop market has become a high-prestige field of competition...
...that will be compatible with the old standard but faster and more powerful. However, the Gang of Nine has not yet finished designing its new circuitry, and is not expected to bring any products on the market for at least a year. Says William Lowe, head of the IBM unit that produces its PCs: "All they're showing now is a set of charts...
...greatest incentive for investors to buy large bankrupt S and Ls is that the Government will often promise to reimburse the new owners for any existing loans that are not repaid. Reason: the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation, a Bank Board unit that insures S and L deposits, would soon run out of money if it simply shut down the troubled giants. Paying off all American Savings' F.S.L.I.C.-insured depositors would have cost an estimated $4 billion to $5 billion, twice the price tag for last week's rescue. Thus the Bank Board must find buyers for the distressed...
...workers not have merited? -- "with at least 60 days' notice when a factory or a plant shuts down" and "jobs -- and I mean good jobs, jobs you can raise a family on." Bush averred that in business he learned that jobs "meant creating opportunity, which meant happy families." The unit of measure, and manipulation, in politics is no longer the citizen. It is the family...
Last week the Serbian Communist Party organization and its popular boss, Slobodan Milosevic, defied a government demand that the protests be stopped. Late in the week the government in Belgrade attempted to defuse the increasingly tense standoff by agreeing to send a Serbian police unit into a Kosovo village to help federal authorities protect the local Serbs...