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...deal that will complete the transformation of Compaq into a global provider of everything from handheld computers to the monster machines that power corporate networks and the Internet. The buyout creates a behemoth with $37 billion in revenues that trails only the $78 billion IBM. "In the early '80s, if we had thought of one day displacing IBM in PCs and rivaling it in size overall, we would have made good candidates for the loony bin," says Compaq chairman Ben Rosen...
Compaq (1997 revenues: $24.6 billion) survived a near collapse a few years back to become the world's leading PC provider. Last year the company, based in Houston, brought home computing to the masses by popularizing the sub-$1,000 PC. Digital, a legendary innovator in the 1970s and '80s and a legendary disaster in the '90s (it flat missed the PC revolution) had few options. Now Compaq can couple its manufacturing and marketing savvy with Digital's high-end technology and global sales and service reach. Compaq will rely less on hardware, an advantage in an industry whose prices...
Unlike Kuumba, which has completely open membership, Under Construction, an evangelical Christian a capella group formed in the '80s, does hold auditions. But members maintain the group also has a non-competitive atmosphere...
...Steven Schragis of Birch Lane Press, says Lewis recommended that the book's publicity notes include this teaser: "How did the author, a glamorous Beverly Hills writer formerly with the Hollywood Reporter, get all the inside dope? She denies rumors she and Domingo were more than friends in the '80s, but read the book and see what you think." Last week the tenor said he knew Lewis "socially" but denied any liaison: "She came to several of my performances over the years. But that...
...Crimson] was financially, intellectually and editorially independent," says Derek C. Bok, whose term as University president spanned the '70s and '80s. According to present administrators and editors, it remains so today...