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Xerox, it must be noted at the outset, is a trademark of the Xerox Corp. of Stamford, Conn. The word comes from the Greek xeros, meaning "dry." It refers to the dry, electrostatic copying process (a quantum improvement over earlier wet photographic methods) finally developed in 1938 in a one-room laboratory behind a beauty parlor in Astoria, Queens, by a penurious patent attorney named Chester F. Carlson. Xerox Corp. had revenues of $4.05 billion last year, and today accounts for more than half of all photocopier sales and leases in the U.S. (The chief producers of copying machines after...
Guard Tamar Manuelyan-Atinc's methodical shooting from the perimeter put the whammy on Regis from the outset. Atinc floated home a ten-footer off a pick and Ellen Seitler cashed in a three point play as the 'Cliffe jumped to a 9-0 lead. The half closed with the 'Cliffe...
...Crimson displayed its superior form and bladework from the outset moving to a 6-3 lead after the first round. The saber team inspired Nick Tepe's untouchable performance (Tepe did not lose a point in his three bouts) got the swordsmen off and stabbing, as John Shipman and Larry Tu both handled their Crusader opponents with ease...
...Crimson continued to carry the play from the outset of the second half, as Kathy Fulton grabbed the tap and drove in a quick two, to re-establish the first half flow. Radcliffe built the lead up to 26 points before play began to get sloppy and the cagers' tenacious woman to woman defense began to slack...
Game Plan for Disaster chronicles the mushrooming use of executive privilege by the Nixon administration to obtain greater power while it was concurrently hiding the means of gaining that power. From the outset of the author's short-lived government experience through the Watergate stonewalling, Nixon and his boys--especially his boys, Mollenhoff suggests--utilized the tool of executive privilege out of misplaced zeal, naively blind to the processes and ethics of government. An addiction which led to their downfall...