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<text id=93TT2578>
<title>
Jan. 04, 1993: Business:Et Cetera
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Jan. 04, 1993 Man of the Year:Bill Clinton
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 15
BUSINESS
Et Cetera
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<body>
<p>OH YEAH?
</p>
<p> 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.
</p>
<p>SOS
</p>
<p> 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.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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