Word: xeroxers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quiet Carter carry off their roles with greatest success. Skrinde's Rita is the most consistently funny character, but there is a bite to her humor, as in her account of a job interview: after tea and charming conversation, the interviewer asked her if she had experience with a xerox machine--"yes," she said, "and I've tasted my menstrual blood, too." Gagnon's brooding Carter is so contained at the start of the play that when she finally erupts, announcing her goal "to put Wittgenstein on film," she seems eccentric but credible...
...Stamford, Conn., and Palo Alto, Calif., two secretaries of the Xerox Corp. use electronic mail computers to swap and file memos from their bosses, thereby reducing to a minute's time a chore that previously would have involved typing letters and sending them coast to coast...
...companies designing and producing the high-technology components of the business office of the future are prospering lavishly. Sales are already approaching $30 billion annually and are expected to leap to nearly $100 billion a year by 1990. In addition to such giants as IBM, Xerox and Honeywell, the field is filling up with a host of newcomers. flush with billions in oil profits, Exxon Corp. has entered the market with its new unit, Exxon Office Systems Co., which is manufacturing and selling a range of desktop word processing devices. The company's QWIP transceiver sends and receives over...
...premier peddler of the new machines showing up in business offices is neither IBM nor Xerox, but An Wang, 61, a Chinese-born inventor who founded Wang Laboratories in 1951. The Lowell, Mass., company produces state-of-the-art equipment for the office of the future. Wang Laboratories dominates the market for so-called integrated information systems. These are elaborate combination of computerized word and data processors, high-speed printers, telecommunications hook-ins and video display terminals used by secretaries and their bosses. And such office innovations are likely to continue. Says Wang: "The cost of parts keeps getting lower...
There are more than 270 separate legal actions like the Xerox one, and the claims total about $6 billion. In September, Federal Judge Kevin Duffy confirmed the attachment of assets amounting to about $3 billion. This means that $3 billion in Iranian assets cannot be removed from U.S. banks until the legal claims on them are resolved by American courts: This could take decades. Indeed, cases of U.S. claims against Cuban expropriation of American assets after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959 are still awaiting settlement...