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- Dec. 18, 1989: Business Notes:Computers
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Dec. 18, 1989 Money Laundering
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 58
- Business Notes
- COMPUTERS
- The Elephant Tries to Dance
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- <p> To corporate customers, computers once meant IBM
- mainframes. But that has changed as high-powered workstations
- and personal computers from such companies as Compaq, Apple and
- Sun Microsystems have won over legions of business users. As a
- result, IBM's earnings have slipped from $6.6 billion in 1984
- on total sales of $46 billion to an estimated $5.5 billion last
- year on total sales of $60 billion. In an attempt to cut its
- costs and become a more nimble competitor, IBM last week
- announced its fourth belt-tightening program in three years.
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- <p> Big Blue plans to eliminate 10,000 jobs from its U.S.
- payroll of 216,000, mostly through attrition and early
- retirement. IBM has already eliminated 20,000 jobs during the
- past two years by the same means. The company will also spend
- as much as $4 billion in a stock repurchase to boost its sagging
- share price. Some industry analysts predict more cuts as IBM
- shifts its emphasis to the smaller and more flexible computer
- systems offered by its rivals.
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