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A power plant kept the IBM campus in Endicott, N.Y., running during the boom years. Employees enjoyed good pay, benefits and job security for years, but IBM has not been immune to the economic challenges faced by other U.S. companies. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

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Weeds grow high in the parking lot of some of the buildings that were a part of the once vibrant IBM campus in Endicott, N.Y. Today, many of the buildings are closed or used by other businesses. IBM workers today face less secure-futures.

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**FILE** IBM chief executive Virginia Rometty speaks in New York on Feb. 16, 2006, when she was the company's senior vice president. The appointment of Rometty in 2012 as CEO has revived the debate over Augusta National's all-male membership just one week before the Masters. The last four CEOs of IBM have been members of Augusta, but the club has never had a female member since it was founded in 1933. (Associated Press)

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Eric Brown, left, a researcher for IBM, hosts a version of the television game show Jeopardy! between IBM's Watson computer and students from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh during a symposium on Watson, at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Wednesday, March 30, 2011. Watson is the question-answering IBM computer that made headlines by competing against humans on the actual television game show. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

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"Jeopardy!" champions Ken Jennings (left) and Brad Rutter look on as an IBM computer called "Watson" beats them to the buzzer to answer a question during a practice round of the long-running TV game show in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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The hardware for an IBM computer called "Watson" is seen after a practice round of the "Jeopardy!" The size of 10 refrigerators, "Watson" bested its human rivals. (Associated Press)

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FILE - In this July 9, 2010 file photograph, Chairman of the Board and CEO of IBM, Samuel J. Palmisano speaks at the annual meeting of the National Governors Association, in Boston. International Business Machines Corp. will announce second-quarter financial results Monday, July 19, 2010, after the market close,(AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, file)