Word: xeroxes
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Despite signs of an improving economy, the gloomy parade of corporate layoffs continues. RJR Nabisco will cut 6,000 employees, more than 9% of its work force, because of a devastating cigarette price war. Profitable Xerox will sever 10,000 employees, nearly 10% of its work force, to increase productivity...
Most directors are content to Xerox the world. Federico Fellini created his own world on film, and it has taken the rest of us a lifetime to appreciate the acuity of his vision...
Another important technology employed isEthernet, a networking standard originallydeveloped at the famed Xerox Palo Alto ResearchCenter, where the graphical user interface wasalso first conceived...
...sundry other public and semi-public bodies have economic prohibitions against dealing with South Africa that remain in effect even though the federal sanctions are lifted. They have often added penalties for any corporations that they deal with, or hold stock in, that break the ban. "If you're Xerox and you want to sell machines to the California government, you're not going to risk that for what might be marginal business in South Africa," says Gay McDougall, a member of the Washington-based Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under...
This is not the first time a successful high-tech company has tried to fully automate the contemporary office. Xerox tried during the 1960s and '70s using networks of word processors, printers, telephones and copiers. After losing a bundle, a humbled Xerox staged a full retreat back to paper and ink, and now calls itself "the Document Company." Another office-of-the-future hopeful, Wang Laboratories, recently placed a huge bet on expensive paper-scanning and imaging systems to stamp out paper. Customers balked, Wang abandoned the office-equipment business and filed for bankruptcy last year. IBM also tried...