Word: xeroxers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conflict is sharply limned in Black Life in Corporate America, a book that says integration in the upper levels of the white-collar work force is a sham. The coauthors, George Davis, a novelist, and Glegg Watson, who helps direct educational grants at Xerox Corp., explain that they might have paraphrased an old Jamaican-sect expression as a theme: "How can African man live at IBM without losing himself?" The answer: he cannot. They conclude that even where overt discrimination does not exist, black managers feel they must not only outperform their white competitors to get ahead, but also hide...
While the C.F. Murphy firm designed many noted buildings over the past 45 years, the first prominent building to show Jahn's personal imprint is Chicago's recently completed Xerox Center. It is straight Mies with one sweeping, un-Miesly rounded corner. Jahn's later design for Chicago's One South Wacker office building demonstrates a less graceful bent toward changed public taste...
...businessmen, met with Soviet leaders in Moscow. That was in 1978, before crises in Afghanistan and Poland chilled East-West relations and put an end to the group's Moscow trips. But last week the eight-year-old organization, whose 210-member roster includes such capitalist colossi as Xerox Corp. and RCA Corp., revealed that it is heading back on another trade-promotion trip Nov. 16. Says Michael Forrestal, a past council president: "U.S. executives generally feel that it is wise for the two largest industrial countries to maintain trade relations...
...Xerox Corp. also has its share of officers who do their desk work standing. Chairman C. Peter McColough has used a stand-up desk for two decades, and a severe back problem led President David T. Kearns to get one a year and a half ago. Wayland Hicks, a Xerox vice president, works from a high desk that he can lower...
...many company insiders and analysts, Xerox is only now learning how to compete effectively in a world market. The dozen or so years of monopoly in the plain-paper copier field took their toll and left the company overstaffed and flabby when the hardball players from Japan got into the game. Says one old Xerox hand, " When IBM and Kodak started competing with us. we could understand that. They had the same values we had. But then the Japanese came in with another set of rules altogether. All of a sudden, it became a whole new world." It will take...