Word: tacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...products begin making a real contribution to earnings. In any case, Xerox is still looking ahead. Having done so much to create the mountain of paper that businessmen deal with daily, Xerox is now working toward helping them eliminate it, or so officials privately admit. One definite future tack: gadgetry for the superefficient office, where stacks of papers on desks would be replaced by TV screens linked to electronic files. Xerox is spending $200 million annually in developing such systems. Its estimate of the size of this "electronic office" market by 1980: $8 billion...
...team's performance has taken a different tack in the abbreviated Cambridge spring. "We've been racing other schools for four weeks, but our first practice was today," coach Mike Horn said yesterday...
...most teams, a game well played results in a victory of some kind: for Harvard, good performance begets a one-or two-point defeat. Yale turned the trick by a 63-62 score. Dartmouth by a 66-64 count. Brown, 58-56. Fordham, 70-68. B.C., 72-71. Tack on a few five-point defeats, and either Harvard is very unlucky or something else is wrong...
...fact is that progress has been snail-paced in the two years since Kissinger and Panamanian Foreign Minister Juan Antonio Tack signed a joint statement of principles to launch negotiations on terms for returning the canal...
...Factories make shoes easy, but not good," he said. He cited the example of some Capezio dance shoes sold on Mass. Ave., which were of such poor construction that their heels came off before they were even worn. "I had to tack the heels back on a dozen or more pairs," he said. There was a little gleam of triumph...