Word: secret
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japan's Ricoh, Canon and other new competitors muscled onto Xerox's turf, the company slumped from an 86% share of the world market for basic copiers in 1974 to just 16.6% by 1984. When a shaken Xerox finally studied its competitors more closely, the company discovered their secret weapon: the Japanese firms hewed to rigorous quality standards. Taking a hard-eyed look at its operations, Xerox discovered that it was slowly destroying itself with sloppiness and inefficiency at almost every level...
...whole idea was rather silly--or scary, depending on how you look at it. Though the program was secret, it never ranked especially high on the FBI's agenda. I suppose they realized that any spy who had to find his information in Popular Mechanics couldn't be one of the Kremlin's top-guns...
...that "intelligence sources told NBC News that the CIA is prepared to lay out the evidence of the Jerusalem-Pretoria missile pact ot the appropriate committees of Congress. the sources said the evidence is irrefutable. Few military analysts in either Washington or Israel were surprised by news of the secret missile deal...
...refer to the home mortgage interest deduction, the cornerstone of America's gargantuan, secret welfare state for the middle class...
...secret" because the cost is hidden in the tax code. Beneficiaries of the mortgage interest deduction don't receive a government check in the mail. They simply write down on their tax returns the amount of interest they paid on their home mortgage, and thereby avoid a substantial part of their income tax bill...