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While IBM has a buttoned-down management style that has been fine-tuned for nearly 60 years, Apple, which is just 6½ years old, is undergoing rapid change. The company is being transformed from an upstart entrepreneurial firm to one that marches to the beat of professional managers. The changes are coming at a time when the high-flying personal-computer industry is suffering its first major bankruptcies...
...neck sweaters that had been around from St. Mark's or New Haven; the khakis were always a little too short, ending just at the ankles, and there were Top-Siders without socks. And so on. Then this came to be known as the Preppie Look, and every upstart from the suburbs was marching around looking as if he were home from Princeton for the weekend. So how were the real aristocrats to proclaim themselves? By going punk? Slam-dancing at the Harvard Club? As soon as one finds something to be snobbish about, everyone else has got hold...
...elderly lady was so shaken she had difficulty keeping hold of her stainless-steel walker as she made her way around the stage entrance of Chicago's Lyric Opera last week. A musician friend spotted her and inquired how she had enjoyed this new, undeniably upstart production of The Mikado. "Well," she said, mustering her best backstage diplomacy, "it certainly must be fun to do." "Oh, yeah," he agreed. "It's crazy...
Part of the reason stems from the Bruins' performance last weekend. In a Saturday race the Brown varsity eight set a course record on the Seekonk River in swamping Boston University by seven seconds. The encore came Sunday, when the upstart Bruins bested Yale by two-thirds of a boat length...
...interests. He pledged his country to the principles of democratic socialism, established a controversial friendship with Fidel Castro, and raised the taxes on the foreign aluminum companies which had substantial investments in the country. With Cuba enough of a thorn in its side, Washington was wary of tolerating another upstart in the neighborhood, and relations with the former British colony chilled...