Word: printshop
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...government's ability to bring off the election without disastrous violence. Many voted as they had for three decades of one-party rule--mechanically and without conviction. Others saw the poll as a fresh start: "I don't care if the F.I.S. is excluded," said Farid Harssani, 38, a printshop worker. "This is the first time we've had more than one candidate to vote for." Above all other considerations, Algerians voted in the desperate belief that their gesture might somehow stem the violence wracking their country...
...recalls, "I told her she didn't have to do that, and she kept crying." Heath too was upset, and when his mother Cathy Tull discovered why, she got on the phone with Mary's mother and, as she says, "had words." She and her husband John Tull, a printshop owner, then followed Heath to the Smiths' front yard, where the two families battled it out before a gathering audience of passersby. The Tulls claim that Heath was on his knees begging for the life of the baby in front of Mary's father, who was preventing him from speaking...
...raid by the county's Asian Crime Task Force at the house and at a nearby printshop turned up the largest cache of illegal software ever discovered in the U.S., worth nearly $13 million at retail prices. By week's end investigators were still tallying the haul -- all Microsoft products, including the operating system called DOS 6.2 as well as the helper programs Windows and Windows for Workgroups. In March a similar raid in the same neighborhood unearthed about $4.7 million worth of phony software plus a supply of automatic weapons...
...Polly's kidnapping, Gary French, an unemployed computer-systems salesman, rushed to the police station to offer his help. As he watched a fax machine slowly churn out poor reproductions of a suspect sketch, he thought, "We can do this all electronically." When Bill Rhodes, who owns a local printshop, and Larry Magid, a syndicated computer columnist, had the same idea, the police put them in touch...
...next several days, French and Rhodes called on computer companies in Petaluma and nearby Silicon Valley to seek donations of equipment. The result was eight computers, which were put to use faxing 1,000 posters a minute to grocery chains and transportation hubs around the U.S. Two nationwide printshop chains, PIP and Kinko's, pitched in to convert the electronic images into high-quality hard copies at all their outlets. Local volunteers distributed the posters...