But then that's the natural reaction in any old-line industry when aggressive leveraged buyout artists invade.
But then that's the natural reaction in any old-line industry when aggressive leveraged-buyout artists invade.
The Bell, however, says Cisco sold it old-line routers, not the new optical wares.
Instead, most suppliers have meekly caved in to their old-line distributors and refused to sell online.
We're talking about tech stocks like Ebay, medical stocks like MedImmune and even old-line retailers like Walgreen.
This is not the first time that an old-line industry has broken into a seemingly unrelated high-tech area.
There was a time when IBM was synonymous with the image as a stodgy and rigid old-line technology company.
Many old-line industrial companies have already jumped onto this haywain, with mixed results.
In the past, collectors often came from old-line families who tended to appreciate art that harked back to the past.
It's a mix of prosperous green suburbs, wooded rural areas, and old-line factory towns trying to adapt to the service economy.
They write of job losses at old-line manufacturers but ignore the larger and more diffuse number of jobs created at smaller companies.
And it's not just people at old-line companies with legacy, defined-benefit pensions.
But today the company is predominantly a hodgepodge of old-line media properties.
And, as Fisher notes, few politicians are paying attention to the needs of the self employed, focusing instead on efforts like boosting old-line manufacturing.
And some of the most successful internet-savvy companies, such as Google and Microsoft, are as secretive about what they do as any old-line company.
Of course, that seems like the goal of every old-line hardware and software giant who is trying to move to the world of cloud computing.
Even Jeffrey Bezos, the founder of Amazon, now offers his own e-tail services to such old-line merchants as Target and Borders, as Blum's Aqueduct does.
It's no surprise old-line companies saw little incentive to upgrade equipment.
WASP's nest, a bastion of old-line Yankee families and country-club Republicans.
They made their money incrementally, in old-line industries like oil and banking, after a young life spent toiling at odd jobs brought savvy and street smarts.
Six months ago Peterson trained his sights on the Janssen labs--laying off 40% of the old-line researchers, who were accustomed to Janssen's leadership, and hiring newcomers.
It means that, while Web sites were supposed to steal customers from their old-line predecessors on Main Street, many focus on raiding online shoppers from rivals.
Kodak's current woes boil down to that eerily familiar song: An old-line technology company unable to adapt to the fast-pace and vicious competition of the digital age.
Rejected from Boston's old-line firms despite his success in law school, he established his own practice, handling everything from wills and divorces to real estate and criminal cases.
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That isn't to say the old-line headhunter business is fading.
At the same time, old-line philanthropic institutions are being feminized.
With an old-line tech company wrinkle, though: Leverage the government.
Old-line marketers are getting a feel for Yahoo's real power.
He was from an old-line Protestant family in Madison, Connecticut.
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