Word: xeroxers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point where I carried a kerosene heater to the classroom. It gave off more fumes than heat, but it made the students feel better. You cannot take notes in gloves. It got so bad that I had to write tests on the board. We had no Xerox paper. We made our own maps. We still do, with Magic Markers and butcher paper. Maps are expensive. And history professors are pretty good geographers...
...chose to attend Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, from which she received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1970. She landed a job as a design engineer with RCA Corp. in Moorestown, N.J., received her doctorate from the University of Maryland and went to work for the Xerox Corp. in El Segundo, Calif. In March 1978, Resnik began training as an astronaut with NASA; she had been chosen from more than 8,000 applicants. Said Resnik at the time: "This is the first semester since I was four that I haven't been in school...
...begins The Jewel of the Nile, the latest installment in what is certain to be a long line of Romancing the Stone sequels. Succumbing to the xerox-machine method of screenwriting and directing which characterized the trend-setting originals of this genre, Raiders of the Lost Ark and its arklet, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, film executives Michael Douglas, Lewis Teague and chief xeroxers Mark Rosenthal and Lawrence Konner have produced an entirely familiar if less satisfying version of the entertaining 1983 romantic, romancing, thriller...
...chief rival is Ethernet, a system first devised eleven years ago by Xerox and adopted by such companies as Digital Equipment and Intel. Ethernet already has 30,000 users and costs only about $500 per connection, compared with the $800 that IBM is expected to cost. Another competitor, American Telephone and Telegraph, has introduced three networks...
There may just be too many secrets to keep. It has been estimated that there are 19.6 million authorized copies of classified documents. That, of course, does not take into account the photocopier. "The Xerox machine is one of the biggest threats to national security ever devised," says retired Admiral Thomas Moorer. "Even if documents are numbered and accounted for, it is easy to slip one out over lunch and copy it quickly...