Word: plain
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Accordingly, the company's fortunes have slumped. Though sales were almost $9 billion last year, Xerox no longer monopolizes the market for the marvel it developed, the copier that works using ordinary untreated paper. Japanese and U.S. competitors have shaved the 70% share of the plain-paper copier market that Xerox held a decade ago to about 45% now Earnings for the first half of this year were down to $271 million, off 16% from the same period a year earlier. Security analysts expect that the third quarter, to be reported this week, will also be poor...
...referendum was initiated in July by a group of Jamaica Plain residents who presented a petition with 200 signatures to the Attorney General...
...group of Boston residents has filed a referendum that calls for the sale of portions of the Arnold Aboretum, a 265-acre park located in Jamaica Plain and affiliated with Harvard University...
What Henry Ford said of his famed Model T had long been just as true of the telephone: Americans could have it in any color they wanted, as long as it was black. Those plain, hardy phones later evolved into a rainbow-hued array of shapes and sizes, but the instrument's electronic heart remained essentially unchanged. Now, however, the familiar telephone is undergoing rapid and dramatic improvements. Among them...
...calms are overcome by the expedient of switching on the engine. It is Buckley's crew-as fine a collection of overachievers as ever spliced the main brace-who make the trip a sentimental journey. On the way, the author analyzes celestial navigation: "The mortal enemy ... is the plain, dumb, silly mistake"; and discusses subjects as disparate as American literature, fatherhood and literary correspondence: "Everybody who has dominion over any kind of press space spends considerable time answering letters from convicted felons." On all of them he is diverting and refreshingly free of bias and political cant...