Word: voiding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While some counselors maintain that their work is no more needed at Harvard than it would be on any other campus, many say they fill a major void unique to the College...
...ways to defeat the desktop forger. The Standard Register company in Dayton, for example, sells a complete line of aids, from artificial watermarks that can be seen from an angle but are invisible to document scanners, to specially treated paper stock that, when tampered with, displays the word VOID in English, Spanish and Latin. But the counterfeiters do not seem daunted. A man in Boston used computer-faked checks and purchase orders to buy computer equipment. A couple in Phoenix made the rounds of the local liquor stores and check-cashing agencies with phony paychecks stamped with a variety...
Anticommunism was the glue that held the right wing together, but the Red Menace is fading away. So far, the search for an issue to fill the void has come up empty. -- The Political Interest: Michael Kramer explains why Bush's low-key diplomacy may be just right for the times. -- A two-fisted millionaire rancher turns on Texas voters. -- In San Diego the most potent triple play is O'Connor to Copley to Kroc...
LONDON FIELDS by Martin Amis (Harmony; $19.95). The British author of Success and Money: A Suicide Note produces a murderously funny novel about a 1990s world that is tumbling inexorably toward a loveless void...
...Einstein's Monsters -- will find that he outdoes himself in London Fields. It could even be said he sometimes undoes himself, with his verbal brilliance and command of literary technique. No matter. As an uninhibited high-energy performance, as a bold conception of a world tumbling toward a loveless void, this British best seller is destined for a large and divided readership...