Word: xeroxed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Unbeknownst to most students, there is battle going on in the basement of Lamont Library. It's a battle between good intentions and immaturity. There, on a wall near the Xerox machines there is a posterboard that asks passers-by to put down their thoughts on disabled persons. Specifically, "what are common misperceptions about disabled people...
...anybody can break the spell, says Hollywood royalty, it's the Katzenberg Kids. Film producer Steve Tisch, who is a close Katzenberg friend, says he would "love to be aligned with them. Plenty of executives would like to work for them -- I hear a lot of Xerox machines running today." Even Disney chairman Michael Eisner, who will not be sending his resume to Katzenberg, gives the troika a rave review. "Competition ignites and stimulates excellence," he says, "and for that I wish them well. I think they'll do well. And I think they'll force us to do even...
...students say that paint is not the only offensive material being sprayed. Fumes persist from students spraying acetone, a carcinogen used in Xerox transfer of prints...
...Fitzsimmons says that the change was not made to attract more applications and that he doesn't anticipate a large increase, we think that claim rings false. Does the admissions office really believe that applicant pool will not increase if prospective students can simply send in their $60 and xerox their common applications? Perhaps the real motivation here is a desire to increase the amount of fees collected or to reduce the percent of those accepted...
Business leaders and academics who have been charting this development think not. "It is not a brain drain but an enhancement of the brain power of the U.S.," says William Glavin, a former vice chairman of Xerox and now the president of Babson College in Wellesley, outside Boston. Glavin believes the new expatriates are receiving -- and will return with -- invaluable training they cannot now get at home: "A major problem in corporate America is a lack of global management knowledge. They are not going to learn much from managers in the U.S." William Hasler, dean of the Haas School...