Word: fax
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Olympic organizers, watching the preparations with breath held in apprehension, this was the calm before the blizzard. There were a few contretemps: some Russians complained about the lack of fax machines in the Olympic Village, and the official Chinese news agency announced that the accommodations here set new Olympic records for discomfort. The International Olympic Committee provoked mumbles with its sudden threat to introduce blood testing, which it just as quickly dropped. Even official brochures treated the athletes like errant children: "Moving from one Village to another is of course possible -- if not recommended -- provided official permission is granted...
...17th century, Christian persuaded Cyrano to write tender love letters for him to give to Roxane -- risky since Cyrano was also smitten with the lady. Today those who want to send a moving missive but fear they lack the requisite communications skills can order a love letter by phone, fax or mail from Love Letters Ink, a Los Angeles company for those suffering from lover's block. Founded four years ago by Martine Greber, Love Letters has written more than 25,000 letters for customers worldwide. The catalog offers selections for < lovers, friends and even in-laws, and features headings...
...fax everywhere, but it's not as inexpensive as not faxing everywhere," Rudenstine said. Harvard began to look at more ways to internationalize its students and its curriculum under former president Derek...
...bleak words did not go over well among business leaders. Ed Yardeni, a New York City economist, immediately sent out a fax to his clients: "Will someone please remind this guy that he is Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors! Send him some antidepressants. Consumers are frightened enough without hearing all this depressing talk from Mr. Greenspan." Urged Yardeni: "Let's have a full-point cut in the discount rate today!" The message evidently got through. Late in the week Greenspan turned Santa Claus. He lowered the discount rate, which is what banks are charged for borrowing money...
...chest of the second man, and he walks away and lives on for years? The event is repeated every day on medical assembly lines around the world. What is surgical plumbing today would have been a biblical masterpiece of wonder. Even commonplace achievements of technology, like telephones, fax machines, television, communications satellites and computers, suffuse the earth with a sort of preternatural glow. The people of the industrialized world have become consumers of secularized miracles -- and the people of the Third World yearn for such products with a kind of religious ardor. Show a developing Polaroid picture...