Word: instantly
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Polaroid is a company built on instant gratification, but its grievance with Kodak has required enormous patience. A federal court in Boston has ordered Eastman Kodak to pay Polaroid $910 million in damages in the largest patent- infringement award in history. The decision is the culmination of a 1976 lawsuit in which Polaroid charged Kodak with violating patents on instant cameras and film. The amount of damages has been at issue since 1985, when the court ruled that Kodak had infringed on seven patents and ordered the company out of the instant-camera business...
Polaroid, whose founder Edwin Land introduced instant photography in 1947, had asked for $12 billion in damages. But Kodak offered to pay only $177 million. Industry experts, who predicted a settlement of $1 billion to $2 billion, think Polaroid will appeal the decision and seek higher damages. Says Brenda Landry, an analyst for Morgan Stanley: "In terms of the amount of sales and patents involved, it doesn't seem very big." Many experts viewed the ruling as a modest victory for Kodak, which might have been forced to sell off assets if the award had exceeded $1 billion...
...There are many practices common today that may offend one or more groups in our communities. The point to stress is that changes in policy cannot be forced by censorship. They must be implemented with majority approval and compromise. Otherwise, the opposing factions will only further capitalize on their instant stardom...
...back in the country, I drove into one of the worst townships in terms of squalor, poverty and juvenile rage, and was alarmed on being surrounded by several dozen tough-looking young blacks who demanded to know who the white man was and what he was doing there. My instant fear turned to instant relief when on hearing my identity they literally opened their arms to "our brother." Astonishingly, all had seen Cry Freedom, and their questions had less to do with the national situation than with what the stars of the movie, Kevin Kline and Denzel Washington, were like...
...postverbal cinema, Postcards proves that movie dialogue can still carry the sting, heft and meaning of the finest old romantic comedy. Suzanne is ever crouching, like a stubborn, frightened child, behind the wall of her ironizing humor. As a coke-carrying member of the sensation generation, for whom "instant gratification takes too long," she is impatient with her wit; too easily she can turn a kind thought against itself. Just as easily, she has turned her life into a sad joke, blowing lines on the set and nearly dying from an overdose. To get a new movie job, Suzanne must...