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- THE WEEK, Page 15BUSINESSEt Cetera
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- OH YEAH?
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- A panel of economists at the private National Bureau of
- Economic Research has declared that the recession is officially
- over. What's more, these experts say, the recession technically
- ended in March 1991 -- 21 months ago. The panel based its
- finding on the fact that several measures of economic activity,
- including nonagricultural employment and industrial production,
- bottomed out around January and March of 1991 and had upward
- trends afterward. Though the recession may be technically over,
- don't break out the champagne -- 9.2 million people are still
- unemployed.
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- SOS
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- Wanted: experienced computer executives willing to help a
- blue-chip CEO get out from under the worst crisis in company
- history. IBM has sent out such a Mayday. Answering the call were
- retired vice chairmen Paul Rizzo, 64, and Kaspar Cassani, also
- 64, who will help chairman and chief executive John Akers get
- Big Blue back on an even keel. Still unanswered, though, is the
- question of who asked the pair to return. Some analysts think
- Akers did it, to placate IBM's increasingly dissatisfied board.
- Others suspect the board brought Rizzo and Cassani back, as the
- first step toward easing Akers out.
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