"NCR was a broken company, " recalls Lars Nyberg , the company's Swedish-born chief executive.

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With everyone reaching for NCR's bigger customers, Nyberg is working hard to serve smaller ones.

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Nyberg, 43, spent two weeks in space in 2008 as part of a U.S. space shuttle crew.

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The company's chief executive, Lars Nyberg has offered to resign if there is any evidence of corruption.

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But Nyberg will have to shed more than plants to be truly competitive.

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This purchase marks the first one filed by Nyberg in the past year.

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If Nyberg can get NCR in shape, it might make an attractive takeover candidate as the database management industry consolidates.

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In part to break NCR from its manufacturing past, Nyberg sold three NCR plants in April 1997 to Solectron Corp.

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Of course, Lars Nyberg, the thin, deliberate Swede who is NCR's 46- year-old chief executive, knows you can't live on past glory.

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Nyberg faces the same challenge -- and he has made some progress.

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Nyberg is betting a large chunk of the company on such business.

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Ms Nyberg is also expecting sales of digital radios to be big at Christmas, the time of year when 80% of radio purchases are made.

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"There is huge demand building up towards Christmas, " says Ms Nyberg.

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The cramped capsule carrying NASA's Karen Nyberg, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and Italy's Luca Parmitano orbited the Earth four times before docking with the space station.

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"It was a pretty cool ride, " Nyberg said upon arrival.

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Nyberg joined NCRin 1995 after 21 years at Philips Electronics.

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