Word: vacuumed
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Back from the war, Tom Jr. saw IBM afresh and quickly realized that its future lay in computers, not a 19th century information technology like tabulators. Even the first primitive vacuum-tube machines could calculate 10 times as fast as IBM's tabulators. Many people, however, including Watson's father, couldn't believe the company's core products were headed for extinction. Nonetheless, Tom Jr., who became IBM president in 1952, never retreated. He recruited electronics experts and brought in luminaries like computer pioneer John von Neumann to teach the company's engineers and scientists. By 1963, IBM had grabbed...
Long before this century and well into it, women without means labored hard--inside the home, without vacuum cleaners or even electricity, and for pitifully low wages outside the home. In 1900, most of the 21% of white women who were employed found themselves confined mainly to textile and garment factories; almost all the 41% of black women who had jobs were agricultural laborers or servants...
...ravenous quest for investment data would not be sated by print alone, a vacuum exploited brilliantly by Michael Bloomberg. Pushed out of Salomon Brothers in 1981, he invested his $10 million farewell gift in building a computerized data service that he turned into a global news service. Today 105,000 Bloomberg terminals light up the desks of banks and brokerages, and the company has expanded into magazines, TV and radio. Bloomberg's media churn out information about interest rates, currency-exchange rates and other streams of data that would have been considered exotic not long...
...wish for, since the gods may grant it. For Republicans who sought a full-blown impeachment process, the problem is figuring out how to retreat now that voters have made clear how unpopular that crusade is. The post-Gingrich turmoil in the G.O.P. House leadership has created a vacuum on the issue. For Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde, who wants to bring things to the fastest possible conclusion, that represents an opportunity to act with a minimum of interference from diehards who still want Clinton's head. There was no dissent even from the right wing last week when Hyde...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Perhaps aware of the excitement vacuum created by his arrival at the Asian Pacific Economic Conference summit in Bill Clinton's stead, Al Gore wasted no time in insulting his hosts, throwing U.S. support behind the "brave" protesters calling for Malaysian prime minister Mahathir's ouster. Malaysian trade minister Rafidah Aziz called it "the most disgusting speech I've heard in my life." But TIME Washington correspondent Jef McAllister says Mahathir's is one carpet the U.S. won't stop urinating...