Word: inks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Much ink has been spilled in the press about a supposed enmity between the two superstars. It isn't so. As Domingo puts it, "We are friends -- and rivals." The astonishing thing is that two such careers should blossom at the same time. This is the Golden Age of the tenors' art -- to be savored because both men are in their 50s and no successors close to their caliber are in sight...
Warner Books canceled The Diary of Jack the Ripper just one month before it was to appear in bookstores. A dealer in historical documents deemed the writings fake since, among other findings, the penmanship was not Victorian and ink tests showed the papers were written around...
...most disturbing thing is that the red ink continues to flow in an industry whose members have been striving for more than a decade to become first-class competitors. Though they have built only one new plant since World War II, American steel giants have invested more than $30 billion since 1980 in modernizing their facilities. The giants have also slashed their labor forces from 375,000 workers two decades ago to about 125,000 today. All that has paid off in greater efficiency and better-quality steel. "For several years, we used 50% Japanese steel," says Craig Corrington...
...first time a 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...
...that's not counting the virtual- reality glasses that transport Harry into an 18th century ballroom, the strange palm-tree tattoos that seem to have become a fashion statement, and the creepy Senator who tries to recruit Harry to some shadowy cause by sending him a pen-and-ink drawing -- of a rhinoceros...