Word: kinkos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While "Love Shack" may be a hit at Chili's, the Kinko's across the street grooves at a self-proclaimed 24-7 muzak dance party--literally. The Muzak Company produces four-track mixes, which can only be played in special machines for stores across the country. This censorship of music through mechanical means irks Kinko's employee Shawn Griffin, who has abandoned three separate Starbucks jobs to escape working with people who didn't know how to have fun or listen to music. "[After a while] you don't really notice it's on anymore," he says, "because these...
Kevin R. Amer '99 was one senior with a last-minute thesis traumas. "I made three trips to Kinko's, but they kept screwing up the copies. It is a maddening experience when you think you're done, but then...
Most American consumers know better than to buy ivory, or ashtrays made from gorilla paws, or tuna caught in nets that are not "dolphin free." But when they stop by Kinko's for stationery or Home Depot for plywood, will they ask themselves, "Is this old-growth free...
...organization published ads depicting ancient forests over the headline OLDEST LIVING THINGS ON EARTH OR TOMORROW'S TOILET PAPER? 3M signed on after RAN set up an 800 number for consumers to complain. Nike, Levi Strauss and Andersen Corp. (the largest U.S. window manufacturer) agreed without hesitation, and Kinko's is even marketing its eco-friendliness with a line of tree-free paper made from bananas...
...TIME, Anne Paulk refused to identify the woman with whom she had had a serious affair and conceded that her ties to women in college were "more emotional than sexual" anyway. But she insists "they would have led to sexual relationships" had they continued. Her husband, a former Kinko's manager now with Exodus, is more defensive about his wife's credentials. "It doesn't matter whether she dated 400 women or one. She was a lesbian." So there...