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...computer giant five years ago adopted the concept of independent business units, which operate as separate organizations. Now eleven in number, the IBUs each have their own mini-board of directors and can decide on their own manufacturing and marketing strategy, usually without asking for approval from headquarters. One unit is developing automatic teller machines for banks; another is building industrial robots. IBM's best-known IBU produced the company's Personal Computer. A dozen executives led by Philip D. Estridge, 47, set up headquarters in Boca Raton, Fla., in 1980 with a blank check and a mandate...
...main reasons for toting the mini-doodads: one-night stays and spotty service, which force many harried transients to become their own concierges. "Most vice presidents of a company would never have carried a travel steamer in the past," says Duane Knapp, former president of the firm that publishes United Airlines' in-flight catalog, "but now they don't have time to send their trousers out to be pressed...
...campus life more palatable for every undergraduate not choosing to live in one of the 12 residential Houses. For transfer students, traditionally left "floating" on arrival because they can't immediately move into a House, the University may block off a set of its area apartments as a mini House community, complete with resident tutors...
Wanda: Righto, Ralph. In her book The Managed Heart, Arlie Russell Hochschild says that the perpetually frozen smile of flight attendants is a classic bit of commercial manipulation that propels many of them into mini- breakdowns at the end of the trip. One flight attendant calls it "artificially created elation," the sort of thing that turns women into ticket-selling objects, not to mention flying bunnies...
Legal experts point out that cordless phones are one of many new-age technological devices that fall into a legal no man's land, an ambiguous region inhabited by such consumer products as personal computers and the ubiquitous message beepers and by sophisticated police equipment like mini- video cameras. The lack of clear legal rules for police use of the equipment promises to keep the courts busy. Just last month two federal courts clashed on the issue when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago overruled a federal district court and found that video surveillance...