Word: xeroxed
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...Xerox Corp. has grown to wealth and prominence by making it relatively easy and inexpensive to copy almost anything. Yet for the past decade, researchers at the company's Webster, N.Y., laboratories have been trying to find a way to render documents invisible to the luminescent eye of a Xerox machine. That seemingly suicidal quest was prompted by a growing clamor from publishers of copyrighted material who are angry about unlawful pirating of their works-and by Government nervousness about dissidents leaking xerographic evidence of federal mischief to the public (read Jack Anderson...
...Xerox now has finally come up with an anti-Xerox weapon: a combination of fluorescent dyes that can render a piece of paper uncopiable. The dyes, which can be sprayed on a document from an aerosol can, are invisible until hit by the powerful light of a Xerox machine. Then they fluoresce with a bright flash that makes the copy momentarily illegible. After copies of a document had been distributed to all those authorized to see it, the original and the copies could be sprayed with the dyes so that attempts to make additional, unauthorized copies would produce only blank...
...Xerox has been granted patents in the U.S. and Britain for the process. But company officials clammed up when an abstract of the patent was published last month in an obscure technical newsletter-which, ironically, could probably profit from being made copy-proof. A Xerox spokesman insisted last week that the company had no firm plans to market the fluorescent foiler. Wall Street analysts who follow the company say that if the product is ever introduced, sales probably would be restricted to the Defense Department, and others who could demonstrate a compelling need. Company officials do note that the fluorescent...
...section people in Expos. to reproduce student writing for classroom discussion, it might be better to eliminate one or two bureaucrats at the top in any case and hire more secretaries, or else use the money now spent on Directors, sub-Directors, etc. for a Xerox fund for all section people...
Evelyn Y. Davis has filed resolutions with five corporations--Chase Manhattan Bank, Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Ford, J.C. Penney and Xerox--calling on them to publish in newspapers the details of any political contributions they have made in the last fiscal year. Davis also called on General Electric and Ford to affirm their "political nonpartisanship...