Word: inks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concerns: Would the fact that each of our almost 4 million subscribers received a personally addressed message on this week's cover raise unwarranted forebodings about how the wondrous technology of personalized printing might infringe on their privacy? Also: in creating our personalized covers we took advantage of the "ink jet" process, which, when combined with "selective binding," permits our magazine (and direct mail) to be aimed at readers with almost intimate accuracy. Our advertisers, in fact, have used this printing capability to send personalized messages to our wide range of subscribers. Might some suspicious types think that our cover...
Murdoch, the son of a newspaperman, professes to love print -- "It's going to be around a long time after me, I hope" -- but concedes that his vision of the 21st century has more to do with cathode rays and satellites than with ink and paper. "Certainly in the medium future it appears there will be more growth in TV than in global print," he says. "We are focusing our expansion in electronics until we've got a better balance in our portfolio...
Blind students will use the Vert Plus voice-synthesis system which reads out text from a computer screen that may be entered from a printed page through a scanner. The system is connected to a Braille printer for student reading and an ink printer for handing in assignments...
...most startling report, however, came from General Motors. The world's largest industrial company announced a $1.9 billion loss for the period, the largest quarterly deficit in automotive history. The red ink includes the one- time $2.1 billion cost of a huge restructuring project. GM will permanently close four obsolete factories and temporarily shut down 19 of its 29 assembly plants in the next two months...
...every inch of the way with a Seurat-like determination to leave nothing accidental on the surface, it is Pousette-Dart's version of the circle that has been used, as a mandatory trope, by every Zen roshi for the past 300 years. It is the circle of black ink on white rice paper that says "emptiness" but also says "fullness," the abstract figure in which one can reflect on the presence of complete being...