Word: faxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with official wrapping regulations ("No string; paper tape only. Next!"). Attracted to their positions by good pay, generous benefits, job security and a predictable, not to say slow, pace, today's postalworkers are being dragged | against their will into the 21st century by the anthem of the Age of Fax: get a move...
Once the money is in a financial institution, it can be moved with blinding speed. Communicating with the bank via fax machine or personal computer, a launderer can have wire transfers sent around the world without ever speaking to a banking officer. The goal of many launderers is to get their money into the maelstrom of global money movements, where the volume is so great that no regulators can really monitor it all. Such traffic has exploded because of the globalization of the world economy, which has multiplied the volume of international trade and currency trading. On an average working...
...everyday quality of life in the Yard has a different feel to it, too. Computers and fax machines have woven themselves into the fabric of student life. The Mug 'n Muffin and other Harvard Square hangouts are gone, forced out by yuppification and high rents. The 18-year-old drinking age is a thing of the past; Harvard On-Line Information System (HOLLIS) and bar-coded books have come to the libraries. Student dining halls are equipped with microwave ovens...
...headquarters of the State Committee for Television and Radio in Moscow. Koppel and Talbott kept in constant touch over an open telephone line. They were assisted by experts who helped improvise minicrises as the scenario unfolded, translated "hot-line" messages that flashed back and forth between the capitals by fax, and doubled as supporting actors when the stars demanded an on-camera briefing...
China's exiled dissidents are not the only ones to have entered the fax age. In South Africa the imprisoned black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela has been allowed, as one of several new privileges, to send and receive messages over a government fax...