Word: instants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nervous students file into Memorial Hall every year to take exams, a brief, silent spark of recognition inevitably interrupts their last pre-exam moments. This recognition leaves them a little more secure, a little more puzzled, and quite a bit more amused than they had been an instant before. They have seen the familiar face. They have heard the soothing patter. Once again they are face-to-face with a Harvard institution--the inscrutable, ubiquitous Mr. Test...
Most of that competition, however, is coming from foreign companies. In the U.S., only Polaroid, with its instant cameras and film, remains a strong competitor of Kodak's in the amateur camera and film market. GAF abandoned that business last year because, said Chairman Jesse Werner, "it has become impossible to compete." Bell & Howell, which reached an out-of-court settlement of an antimonopoly suit against Kodak, has incurred losses in its consumer photo business since 1974 and has joined forces with two Japanese firms to market their products...
...fewer than ten separate businesses. Pavelle, a tiny New Jersey firm that sank into bankruptcy in 1975, has brought suit asking, among other things, that the trademark "Kodak" be as freely available to the public as the term aspirin. Polaroid has also sued, contending that Kodak's instant cameras and print film infringed on Polaroid patents. Most ominous of all, the Department of Justice has demanded a mass of Kodak documents, a possible tip-off that it too is preparing an antitrust case...
...would have been Washington's biggest Big Brother. The so-called Tax Administration System, built around a monstrous $850 million computer, was going to give Internal Revenue Service staffers at 8,300 terminals in the ten regional IRS centers around the U.S. instant access to the financial records of more than 125 million U.S. taxpayers. Alarmed at what seemed like another electronic-age assault on personal privacy, liberals and conservatives alike protested when the project was announced in 1975. Congress's Office of Technology Assessment denounced it as a "threat to the civil liberties, privacy and due process...
...press time each week, our offices are piled high with paper -stories, newspapers, cables, galleys. An enormous number of words, only a small percentage of which see print, go into the preparation of every issue. Thus it seems almost daunting that the people who create and work with this instant library spend much of their leisure time putting together words on their own. At almost any time of year, a number of our staff are busy writing books or readying them for publication...