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Gasior, however, has finally managed to bring her evidence to the attention of the highest authorities. Rose was so impressed with her "smoking gun" document that he enlisted Brooks, who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, to help set up a meeting with Attorney General Reno. Though Rose and Brooks presented allegations of a Justice Department cover-up, Reno listened impassively -- and it is not clear precisely what, if anything, she may do about it. "I know she's giving it serious consideration," says Rose, who realizes, just as Reno does, that a full-scale investigation could send shock waves through...
...successful high-tech company has tried to fully automate the contemporary office. Xerox tried during the 1960s and '70s using networks of word processors, printers, telephones and copiers. After losing a bundle, a humbled Xerox staged a full retreat back to paper and ink, and now calls itself "the Document Company." Another office-of-the-future hopeful, Wang Laboratories, recently placed a huge bet on expensive paper-scanning and imaging systems to stamp out paper. Customers balked, Wang abandoned the office-equipment business and filed for bankruptcy last year. IBM also tried and failed, as did oil giant Exxon, which...
...will get to decide that question this fall when producer Steven Bochco, who created Cop Rock (as well as Hill Street Blues), premieres his NYPD Blue on ABC. Bochco negotiated an unusual agreement with ABC over the crude vernacular he could use on the show. According to that confidential document, among the 30 or so prime-time words acceptable to ABC are such bizarre semi-obscenities as mother jumper and humphead, as well as a vulgar term for feces and a vulgar term for female genitalia...
...report seems to have given new life to women's athletes and coaches. Coaches, meeting together with athletic administrators, won the right to see copies of the document, which had previously not been available, and got administrators to agree to a series of meetings to discuss Title IX issues...
...report also cast doubts on official explanations of a fair and balanced operating budget. In fact, the document says that the department spends significantly greater amounts of money on four high-profile sports three of them men's teams because they bring in more revenue...