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- <text id=93TT0930>
- <title>
- Jan. 25, 1993: Business:Et Cetera
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 25, 1993 Stand and Deliver: Bill Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- BUSINESS, Page 22
- Et Cetera
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- <body>
- <p> MURPHY'S LAW
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- <p> At International Business Machines last year, they thought
- everything that could go wrong for the computer company did.
- Market share fell in every single product line; the once
- unshakable firm was forced to revoke a 78-year policy against
- involuntary layoffs; and it recorded losses of $3 billion. This
- year isn't shaping up any better. Standard & Poor's stripped IBM
- of its prized triple-A credit ranking, lowering it three notches
- to double-A-minus. That will adversely affect some $19 billion
- worth of senior debt. Last March, Moody's Investors Service
- downgraded IBM's debt rating.
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- </body>
- </article>
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