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...should be a Mets fan. I identify with their culture. I appreciate how deep into the Bachman-Turner Overdrive canon the Shea Stadium deejay can dig. I have bitten my palm, Squiggy-style, over the throngs of big-haired women who have the Mets logo airbrushed on their nails. And I get pumped up when Hawaiian-born Benny Agbayani comes to bat and the scoreboard flashes, without any offense intended, HAWAIIAN PUNCH...
...actually done a fair job of adapting to the changing environment: more than half its revenues now come from digital products, its color machines are wildly popular, and it is well positioned to be a leader in on-demand, custom publishing. But a slew of newly aggressive players, from Canon and Ricoh to Hewlett-Packard, have done better, steadily encroaching on its once exclusive, very lucrative turf. From 1997 to 1999, Xerox's estimated share of the $1.3 billion-a-year, high-end, black-and-white production copier market in the U.S., where the real money is made, dropped from...
...copiers and high-speed printers--tanklike, six-figure machines that can spit out up to 180 pages a minute and are sold primarily to governments, universities, commercial printers and large corporations. Servicing and supporting those machines has been the company's real cash cow. In the past year, however, Canon, IBM and German printer Heidelberger--which, ironically, purchased its technology from Xerox's old Rochester, N.Y., brother-in-arms, Kodak--have come up with a product to rival Xerox's. Though these upstart machines don't have as many bells and whistles, they're more than adequate for companies that...
...career whose influence was still being felt 1961, when Bob Dylan recorded "See That My Grave Is Kept Clean" on his debut album. Being the first out of the gate may have accounted for some of Jefferson's success; his songs and their variations became part of the blues canon, but how much of it was Jefferson and how much was part of the tradition he came from is impossible to establish. What is clear is that in his time his skills as a performer were renown, and he introduced a whole genre to a broader audience. Along with Jefferson...
While concentrations structure their tutorial programs in a variety of fashions, many say their ultimate goal is simply to introduce students to a way of thinking, rather than a canon of famous works...