Word: copier
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...through the 1970s and early '80s, when its heartland copier business was running into stiff competition from Japanese producers like Canon and Ricoh, Xerox (1984 sales: $9 billion) was looking for new lines of business. The company moved into, then out of, computers. It bought Crum & Forster, the big insurance company, which had heavy losses in 1984. Now Xerox is moving toward the land. During the next decade, it will oversee development of a residential and commercial community on 2,267 acres of prime real estate it owns along the Potomac River near Leesburg, in Loudoun County, Va. Total investment...
...wireless hot spots and securely link up with business networks. Nokia will even trot out some major companies that have agreed to kick the tires on the new devices - DaimlerChrysler for its German sales force, Pfizer for its Finnish sales force and Ricoh for its French force of copier repairmen. It's a risky announcement. After all, the gadgets won't be ready for trial until the summer, or for general commercial use until late in the year. "We usually don't jump the gun" with product announcements, Ollila told TIME, but he's doing so this time because...
Burns' division is responsible for products that bring in more than 80% of Xerox's sales, including high-end publishing systems that helped the ailing copier-and-printer company return to profitability last year after major restructuring and a $10 million fine for accounting fraud. Burns, 45, says climbing the corporate ladder has also taught her to shut up a bit more. "If you give people a chance to speak, they probably will," she says. As for nabbing Xerox's top job? "The responsibilities I have today will keep me busy and keep me learning for quite a while...
...time to nurture and train inexperienced employees. The B's can save companies from disastrous oversights and unethical corner cutting, since their ties to the firm tend to be stronger than those of free agents who hopscotch from job to job. And they know how to unjam the copier. One reason Enron, a company packed with hotshots, went bankrupt was that good, solid employees--like whistle-blower Sherron Watkins--were shunted aside in the gold rush. "B players strive for advancement but not at all costs. This attitude is anathema to most A players," DeLong and co-author Vineeta Vijayaraghavan...
...made his fair use copies earlier, I am sure he could find a time when he wouldn’t have to duke it out with his fellow students. He expects someone to go through the trouble and expense of creating a custom text and then set up a copier for him to use to copy it for free—and make 50 originals available so that there would be no lines, no waiting. Who does he think would pay for this convenience, which he considers his “right?...