Word: xeroxed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...should move its evening news to 10 o'clock, where it would get a bigger audience. (Tisch listened, but nothing came of it.) "There has to be some change in the structure we now have," says former CBS News president Van Gordon Sauter, "where three evening-news shows are Xerox copies of one another in a dwindling market. Someone will see a chance to break out first and make a big score...
...when Richard discovers that the end of the world has come and "an adrenaline fang bites the rear of his neck." Coupland extends his metaphor of human infringement on nature with the words he uses to describe the post-apocalyptic world: "The darkening sky is becoming a warm, dead Xerox and the winds blow forcefully as though aimed from a hair blower," and "Below them, the fire on the sloping neighborhoods burns like a million Bic lighters held up in the dark at some vast, cosmic Fleetwood Mac concert." Yet often his quirky comparisons go one step...
...couple of things to consider: What kind of work do you intend to do? How much space can you spare? Aside from your souped-up PC, you'll need an array of space-hogging peripherals like a printer and a scanner. Fortunately, companies like Brother, Canon and Xerox recently unveiled a new and improved class of multifunction printers (starting at $500) that combine the features of a scanner, a copier and a fax machine. "People never took delight in having 20 different cables going around the desk," says Envisioneering's Richard Doherty. "Now you have all-in-one peripherals...
...Women's Studies Program) to what is, to me, the gleaming, glowing Barker Center. I helped unpack books and move them into new (but, admittedly, smaller) offices. I reveled in the brilliant light and wide open spaces of the atrium and conference rooms. I even loved the new Xerox machines I would learn to use and took a rather too-keen interest in mahogany office furniture. "Isn't this great?" I asked passersby. "Yes, it's nice," they replied, but some of them seemed sad to have left their comfortable, roomy former offices across...
...evening perilously close to the due date for the paper in question, she has ample time to settle down in the reading room and take careful notes. But if she is less prepared and the library is shutting down in a half an hour, she must face the dreaded Xerox...