In this eloquent first-person account of a family drama that changed the face of American business, the man who transformed IBM into the world's largest computer company reflects on his lifelong partnership with his father--and how their management style and shared dedication to excellence united to create a unique corporate culture that became the blueprint for the entire technology boom.
In the course of sixty years Thomas J. Watson Sr. and his son, Thomas J. Watson Jr., together built the international colossus that is IBM. This is their story: a riveting and revealing account of two...

This monograph presents the first comprehensive diachronic account of copular and passive verb constructions in Old and Middle English. Peter Petre analyzes:

- The mysterious loss of the high-frequency verb weoroan 'become' as a casualty of changing word order in narrative during Middle English.
- The merger of is 'is' and bio 'shall be, is generally' into a single suppletive verb, and how it is related to the development of a general analytic future shall be.
- The co-occurrence of multiple changes that led to become and wax crossing a threshold of similarity with existing...