Word: xeroxers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fired without interminable hearings. Under a 19-year-old decentralization plan, elementary and junior high schools enjoy wide latitude in curriculum and administrative matters -- which has resulted in a chaotic absence of accountability. Nevertheless, the central bureaucracy keeps a stranglehold on orders for such bedrock necessities as textbooks and Xerox paper...
...concluded their historic accord on intermediate-range arms reductions, the talks nearly snagged over a missing photograph. The matter was hardly trivial. The treaty called for the elimination of Soviet SS-20 missiles, but nobody on the U.S. team had ever seen one. Finally, the Soviets produced a grainy Xerox of a photograph of the missile, along with a promise to send the picture itself later. It has yet to materialize. One possible reason for Moscow's reluctance: the SS-20 is identical to the first two stages of the long-range SS-25, which is not covered...
...less diplomatic customer service representative up the street preferred to remain anonymous. (Hint: he works in a Xerox place in the Harvard Square area.) We'll call him Larry...
...Catskill resorts he tried a series of personae. Sometimes he was a road-company Henny Youngman: "I grew up in a tough neighborhood. We played hopscotch with real Scotch." On other occasions he was a Xerox of Woody Allen: "I was so self-conscious, every time football players went into a huddle, I thought they were talking about...
...more games, pretty boy," I said, "No ties, see? I'll make xerox copies from morning to night! I'll shove papers from Desk A to Desk B, and write memos until I drop dead of boredom! Then I'll get up the next morning and do it again! I'll even work in a bank! Just no ties...